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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.
Walking fromSouthgate to Langland this afternoon: three buzzards seen together from Langland Golf Course above Summerland Lane/ Murton Lane. Four clouded yellows.
At Whitford today 3 Sandwich Tern, 3 Marsh Harrier – inc male and 2 juv/female types, 1 Osprey ( another at LLanrhid), 5 Spot fly, 45 Eider, 40 Med pipit, around 240 Curlew….. but 26 Jays all flying together down to the point over the dunes was the highlight…..is an irruption on the cards or just local movement .. we will see.
Oxwich Marsh: 4 sedge warbler, reed warbler, whitethroat, 11 Cetti’s warbler, 21 blackcap, 17 chiffchaff. Passage of meadow pipit, swallow, house martin and grey wagtail evident overhead, with 8 meadow pipit captured. Marsh harrier.
I can see one Osprey this morning on it’s favourite post eating a fish
19th September ? juvenile arctic tern, Oxwich river, dark bar rear edge of wing but no carpal bar
looks like Arctic
Yes, Arctic Tern
Short legs, long neat trailing dark edge to the wing, plain upper wing and petit look says Arctic but not a juv, they usually have a white forehead and slightly darker carpal bar, but the bill looks black, maybe a late first summer? The trailing edge looks very contrasty, especially on the upper wing but maybe that’s a photographic effect.
Heol fenrod pond this afternoon 1 adult mute swan with 4 fully grown juvs
22 mallard 2 ravens over ,lots of jackdaws near home bargains car park 100+
Cefn Bryn this afternoon two Red Kite, a Kestrel and a superb show of interactive flight by two Goshawk. Llanrhidian: Kestrel, Buzzard and Marsh Harriet
Garganey at Loughor Foreshore this afternoon with a large group of 309 Teal. Other counts included 371 Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 55 Mallard, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, c100 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Redshank, 4 Curlew, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, and 12 Dunlin.