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Guidelines for Reporting Rarities and Submission of Annual Records
Detailed records of nationally or locally rare species (guidance on these is
here) should be sent to the County Recorder Eddie Hunter (
goweros23@gmail.com) as soon as possible after the sighting. An appropriate description should be provided of the species, your previous experience of it (and similar species), the circumstances and weather conditions in which the sighting occurred and any other pertinent information (such as photos). He will then circulate to the local or national records committee as relevant.
Day to day observations, including of nest sites, flocks of birds and species of local interest, should be collated in the Annual Record Form and sent to Eddie as an email attachment following each calendar year. Receiving these by the end of January is ideal as an early start can then be made on compiling the annual report.
PLEASE NOTE
Please could we ask that detailed locational information that may lead to the disturbance of the nest sites of species listed under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act (1981) is omitted from any posts. This may otherwise lead to an offence being committed.
Schedule 1 species that regularly breed in the recording area are Dartford warbler, chough, honey buzzard, crossbill, goshawk, kingfisher, hobby, red kite, barn owl, peregrine, little ringed plover and Cetti’s warbler.
Oxwich Marsh: 40 reed warblers, 36 sedge warblers, 7 whitethroat, 8 chiffchaff, 5 grasshopper warbler, 7 blackcap, 13 willow warbler, 2 garden warbler, pied flycatcher, 6 tree pipits, 2 stonechat (all trapped and ringed). Red kite over.
Mill Wood Lodge Just spent an hour watching 3 Spotted Flycatchers sallying over our pond. Suggests one must have been this years young. Parents have been around through July and August. Tree Pipit also made an appearance. Large numbers of Linnets daily visitors at the moment taking advantage of the wild flower seeds which are still doing well amongst the scorched grass.
Crymyln
Gannet, sarnies, crp, dunlin, sanderling, oystercatcher, gbbg, herring gulls, lbbgs, 2 yellow wagtails, pomarine skua, possible ylg Other:
Rabbit, European beewolf and a dead porpoise floating around
Oxwich Marsh: nightjar, 2 garden warbler, grasshopper warbler. Movement of sedge warbler continues. Minor influx of whitethroat. No tree pipit seen or heard this morning. No bearded tit seen or heard for a little while now.
Neath canal ,giants grave this evening 2adult. Mute swan ….. and 2 well grown juvs on the canal bank.2 adult moorhens with 5 juvs on the canal .
Oxwich Marsh. Good numbers of sedge warblers this morning. Also tree pipit (3), grasshopper warbler.
Tutt Head. A steady stream of 104 Mediterranean gulls flew west just after the eclipse.
20 plus Swifts over Langland golf clubhouse this evening after the eclipse feasting on flying ants.
16 Chough on Llanmadoc hill ready to watch the eclipse this evening.
Five Swallows flying east between Rotherslade and Limeslade this morning: possible early migration flight.
1 Adult and 1 juvenile Tawny Owl calling on Kilvey Hill on 8th August. Also a Nightjar churring at 21:20.
A long overdue walk from the Brunel tidal dock to the river mouth birds seen were a kingfisher in baglan brook, six little egrets a common sandpiper,perigrine falcon,robin, dunnock,2 juv . pied wagtail . ,on the crumlym borrows side were 150 black headed gulls,90 oyster catchers, 30 curlew counted but more were hidden in the grass,herring and lesser b b gulls
also seen magpie jackdaws carrion crows 3 ravens were over falsehood golf course,butterflies were 2 clouded yellows 1 painted lady small blue meadow brown large and small whites.
Oxwich Marsh: singles of tree pipit, garden warbler, grasshopper warbler
Oxwich Marsh: 28 sedge warbler, 24 reed warbler, 10 willow warbler, 7 whitethroat, 5 chiffchaff, 4 grasshopper warbler, 3 tree pipit, garden warbler, kingfisher, 7 wren.
Red Kite over Underhill Park, Mumbles earlier this afternoon.
Oxwich Marsh: tree pipit (2), grasshopper warbler, influx of willow warbler, kingfisher (juv). Very few sedge warbler present, but good numbers of young reed still. No bearded tit heard / seen.
Loughor Foreshore: Some signs of return passage on this evenings high tide, with counts of 1 Teal, 33 Oystercatcher, 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Common Sandpiper, 3 Redshank, 1 Med Gull (3 earlier in week including a juvenile – photo) and 270 Swallows. There has also been a slow building up of the ‘regulars’ over the last week, with counts totals of 7 Shelduck, 140 Mallard, 81 Little Egret, 4 Great White Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 765 Black-headed Gull (including a c-r Polish bird – photo), 51 Herring Gull, 129… Read more »
Oxwich Marsh: garden warbler, 23 reed warbler (including one returning bird initially ringed in 2018), 4 willow warbler. Only 3 sedge warbler in five hours following 29 in 2.5 hours yesterday, indicating a substantial overnight clear out.
No bearded tit seen or heard by the ringing team, but a record from near the South Pond hide by a visiting birder (a young bird).
Coed Gelli Hir this afternoon. Good number of Spotted Flycatchers around the pond. A Sedge Warbler also present
Juv Goshawk over Reynoldston, this morning
Oxwich Marsh: 29 sedge warblers captured in a couple of hours, indicating good passage. Garden warbler, 9 reed warbler a few willow warbler and a young whitethroat. No evidence of bearded tit.
Oxwich Marsh: passage of reed and sedge warbler increasingly evident. Small influx of willow warbler and whitethroat. No sign of bearded tit. Goshawk over.
Oxwich Marsh: garden warbler, grasshopper warbler. Crossbill over. Sedge warbler influx continues, but lack of willow warbler this morning.
Oxwich Marsh Sat AM: 3 garden warbler, continued sedge and willow warbler passage. No bearded tits seen or heard.