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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.
Male tawny owl calling at 22.45 last night from the Bible College on Derwen Fawr Road. Also a female blackcap feeding on fat balls in the garden on Glynderwen Crescent along with a redwing feeding on fallen apples.
Single Purple Sandpiper and Sanderling at Port Eynon beach. Displaced by rising tide.
Early hours of this morning. Tawny owl Langland
19/12
Langland Golf Course- mistle thrush
Langland Headland – 2 cormorant, rock pipit.
40 Curlew and c35 Oystercatcher on University/Ashleigh Road playing fields this afternoon approaching high tide.
Highlights from Penclawdd Marsh this morning: 8 snipe, 1 kingfisher, 8 skylark, 3 gadwall, 1 treecreeper, 4 redwing.
This afternoon…
Penclawdd Pill: 3 greenshank, 6 snipe, 1 common gull, 1 red kite, 6 gadwall.
Dalton’s Point: 2 grey plover, 6 lapwing, 16 black-tailed godwit, 1 buzzard upwards of 60 pintail and 40 wigeon. Surprisingly no dunlin after 90 a few days ago.
Male Blackcap in our Bishopston garden just now.
Langland to Caswell 20/12: kestrel, 2 chough, 4 raven (displaying)
Great Egret down on Llanrhidian marsh this afternoon
Ashley Rd Playing Fields:l this lunchtime
At least 31 curlew
10 common gull
2 med gulls
100+ Bhg
Handful of oystercatchers..
At 1240 today Sunday: a redwing on our back lawn in Brynfield Road.
Penclawdd Marsh today: 1 Snipe, 363 Canada Goose, 39 Greylag Goose, 3 Skylark, 1 Redwing, 1 Bullfinch.
Dalton’s Point: 1 Bar-tailed Godwit with 39 Black-tailed. 130 Dunlin, 1 Grey Plover, 1 Greenshank, 3 Common Gull, and a Great-crested Grebe.