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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.
2 Common Scoters seen between Limeslade and Rotherslade from the Coast Path yesterday – 6th Nov.
At Castell Du today there was 5 Tundra Bean Geese found by Chris Brewer in the morning …. with the canada flock apparently .Not sure if these were present in the afternoon.
Only the 2nd county record
Rhossili Head. ; 1 Woodlark flew over with several Chaffinchs and Skylarks having doubled back toward Middleton. 150 Stock dove was are amazing total in fields.Plenty of passerines still feeding on the Vile fields 6 Reed bunting, 60 Chaffinch, 30 Med Pipit, 70 Linnet, 12 Pied and 1 Grey Wag, 300 Starling, 45 Skylark. At pitton 30 Blackbirds were feeding under 1 apple tree on fallen fruit. Daltons point; 9 Spoonbill in the close channel very busy feeding. LLanrhidian; The female Pallid harrier was showing intermittently in hours before dusk. 2 Marsh Harrier inc a male. 1 Hen Harrier juv… Read more »
Colour ringed BH gull in Bracelet Bay carpark.. ring is broken and incomplete but only one project fits this format.. A Danish bird. I’ve contacted the scheme owner and will wait for his reply
Llanrhidian marsh
10.00-13.00
Marsh harrier, male and female.
Ringtail Hen harrier, red kite , kestrel, buzzard, GWE, skylark, stonechat, teal, lapwing, shelduck, little egret, grey heron, Linnet pied wagtail, raven, carrion crow, dunnock , meadow pipit, chaffinch, Herring gull, Cormorant.
Russell Evans, Gwilym Clayton, Bob East.
Dalton Point
13.15 -14.15
Little Egrets, Teal, Curlew, LBBGull, Pintail, Great Crested Grebe x 2, BHGull, Linnets, Dunlin, Oystercatcher, Spoonbill x 9 , Black Tailed Godwits, Knot, Shellduck, Wigeon and Pallid Harrier.
9 Spoonbill feeding fairly close in at Dalton’s Point, Penclawdd, today – approx 1.30pm.
A rook seems to have taken residence with the jackdaws on Swansea Rec.. nextdoor to St Helens..
And 2 ravens have joined the nightly corvid roost on West Cross lane in Mumbles
Llanrhidian Marsh this afternoon: highlights included Short Eared Owl, Pallid, Hen and Marsh Harriers, Kestrel and Great White Egret.
Some good wader numbers at Blackpill at 1pm today – c400 oystercatcher, c420 sanderling, 35 dunlin, 11 barwits and 3 little egret….
Ringtail harrier (Pallid?) at Llanrhidian Marsh this afternoon.
Derek, this is almost certainly the Pallid. Looks good on general structure / tapered wing shape, head pattern, dark eye etc, and the returning bird is missing primary 6 from the right wing, which your pic clearly shows
Thanks very much for this, Frank. Gives me a good idea of what to look for in future.
Superb display of flying by a Sparrow Hawk and Crow this morning at 0800 above the BCYC towards the Pilot at Mumbles. The hawk was eventually scared away.
An unsuspecting new world warbler was found by a boy in my class as he sent me a picture wondering what it is. I will keep his name anonymous, at first I thought maybe Tenessee warbler as that’s what he said ChatGPT suggested. But looking at pictures of Tenessee warblers it doesn’t look quite right. The sighting was in the general vicinity of Oxwich marsh at 11:15 on this date.
I’ve found out the picture, was AI enhanced, I’ll try to get the original
Given the significance of this record for the recording area / the rarity of the species concerned, it would be very useful if a recorder, precise location and any other circumstances could be provided. Oxwich is a large area and this seems very vague. The references to AI are also a little concerning.
A pair of Kingfishers and a Buzzard in Clyne Valley Woods this afternoon near to Killay.
Baglan pool late afternoon 16 black h gulls, 4 herring gulls,one little grebe, grey heron ,
Little egret,raven over, buzzard,jay, magpies,song thrush, 4 carrion crows,
On the run off pool there were 12 mallards
1/11/2026. Blackpill at high tide. In amongst 70+ Curlew, countless Sanderlings and Oystercatchers and Ringed Plover, was this solitary Brent Goose. Heavily cropped photograph.
Mumbles Head 0700-1130
Amazing passage of thrushes flying east, especially in the first 30 minutes.
1500 Wood Pigeon, 50 Stock Dove, 1170 Starling, 12 Pied Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 250 Meadow Pipit, 126 Skylark, 12500 Redwing, 200 Song Thrush, 5 Mistle Thrush, 650 Fieldfare, 700 Blackbird, 1385 Chaffinch, 11 Brambling, 5 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 72 Goldfinch, 7 Redpoll, 155 Siskin, 200 Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting and a Great White Egret.
(LLG, BB, MH, RJ)
Llangennith moors: 30th Nov, female marsh harrier quartering reed beds. Water rail and three Cettis calling. 3 chough over dunes.
Lesser scaup at Gnoll country park Neath 2nd pond found by Dan Lewis
Whiteford 0730-1240
85 species including 1 imm. male Long-tailed Duck, 4 Red-breasted Merganser, 150 Common Scoter, 4 Great Northern Diver, 2 Red-throated Diver, 1 Hen Harrier, 2 Merlin, 1182 Redwing, 360 Fieldfare, 1 Brambling, 2 Redpoll, 1 Snow Bunting,
Firecrest on Southward Lane, Langland at 10:00 this morning
Black redstart, Princess Way, Swansea (on the new library building) at 07:15. Present for 10 mins. Then flew down towards MacDonalds.
Cimla common late afternoon 53 BLACK headed gulls,10 herring gulls and 4 common gulls. nearby there were 20+ starlings and a jay.
I just saw this in the garden below mine. We live in Pontneathvaughan in the Neath Valley. Sorry for the poor quality of the photo but can anyone tell me if this is an Osprey?
Looks quite good for osprey with other possibility being a very pale chested Common Buzzard. With Osprey breeding season over there are still some individuals migrating south so not out of the question.
Thank you! I’d like to think it was an Osprey 😀