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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.
Good day out down Salthouse point and Llanrhidian, female Marsh Harrier showed well down Llanrhidian end, also Redstart, Greenfinch, Kestrel, Red Kite Reed Bunting Pipit’s and Kingfisher
Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Reed Bunting, Shelduck, Curlew, Brent Geese, a Kestrel and a Red Kite at Salthouse Point, Crofty this morning.
Tawe Rivermouth at low tide this lunchtime: 140 Dunlin, 9 Redshank, 5 Turnstones, 1 Oystercatcher, and 1 Ringed Plover. Also 4 Greenfinches in the Marina sand dunes.
Margam Abbey:
Pond was very quiet .. except for a little grebe..
Churchyard empty apart from a few song thrush & blackbirds.
Dec 5th: Cefn Bryn east, male hen harrier 2.30pm, woodcock alongside northern edge of moorland, snipe overhead. Two flocks of scoter in Oxwich Bay, over 200 birds.
Yesterday 4th fenrod lake 180 est herring gull, 200+ black headed gull,20+ mute swan ,70 est Canada geese,3 goosanders 2 female 1 male ,good numbers of coot and moorhen,usual mallards and tufteds, hard to get an accurate count birds on the move constantly,nice to meet Alasdair flannagan there after a few years few passerines about pied wagtail robin blackbird jackdaws magpie carrion crows and wood pigeons.
Mistle Thrush in full voice 3.55am near fendrod lake
A Pergerine on Cwm Ivy Tor around noon today.
Nice mobile ‘black’ black redstart west of limeslade at rams tor above cliffpath
Aberafan beach…
At least 50 great crested grebe at the Neath Rivermouth end of the beach . Very difficult to count as they had a lot of gulls mixed in and were very distant
2 singing Song Thrushes today. One in the Marina and one in Singleton Park. By far the earliest I have ever heard them singing
Port Talbot Dock 29&30 November (per Darryl Spittle & James Garside).
Snow bunting (pic attached), merlin, 2 purple sandpiper, up to 80 sanderling in embayment