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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.
Treecreeper and Goldcrest in Glyncollen woods today
155 dunlin on the new lifeboat slip mid tide yesterday (c. 11:00)
Blackcap (female) in the garden in Langland this morning
3 kingfishers spotted in Clydach, 1 along the canal and two on the river. They stood out like sore thumbs on a miserable day like today! Grey wagtail also seen
At LLanrhidian marsh 2 ringtail Hen Harriers were hunting the saltmarsh early afternoon. 900 Lapwing and 400 Golden Plover were an impressive sight. 4 Red Kites together searching the saltmarsh from Wernffrwd down to Weobley. Also 4 Great White Egret, 20 Little Egret, 1 Greenshank
At Penclawdd Pil 5 Snipe and 7 Gadwall were with the usual Redshanks and Curlew
At Blackpill- 80 Med Gull ( 1 with yellow ring), 3 Y.L Gull , just 2 L B B Gull and a good looking 1c/y Caspian Gull candidate there this late afternoon.
Mumbles old lifeboat slipway at 1530. More dunlin joined the party – now 70 with 6 turnstone and 2 redshank. Female scoter flying around in circles offshore, settling for brief stops then flying off again, seemed agitated ? lost the flock.
15 Dunlin, 2 Redshank, 7 Oystercatcher and 3 turnstone on Mumbles old lifeboat slipway today. 10 Med gulls in Bracelet Bay.
Surprisingly a wigeon in amongst the mallards on Singleton Park boating lake yesterday 5/12/23
That Wigeon has been visiting Brynmill Park Lake for the past five or six winters. It occasionally relocates to Singleton Park boating lake.
A good day for gull ID at Ashleigh Road playing fields/Blackpill this afternoon at 3.00pm. Great black-backed, Lesser black-backed, Herring, Black-headed, Mediterranean, Common Gull all present. Also 40 curlew, single Whimbril and 18 Oystercatchers at Ashleigh Road. 600 Oystercatchers at Blackpill.
Nice Blackcap in my garden ( Ynysforgan) today.
Penclawdd Pill at high tide on a glorious afternoon earlier today – 1 Greenshank, 15 Redshank, 13 Teal, 4 Gadwall, 1 Common Gull, 24 BH Gull, 2 LBB Gull, 1 Heron, 2 Little Egret, 50 Starling, 8 Mute Swan, I Cormorant
9 Goosander on Ffendrod this morning (5m, 4f). Chinese Goose (escapee?) still frequenting with the Canadas, been there about 6 months now.
Quite a lot around at Dalton’s Point/Salthouse Point/ Llanrhidian Marsh yesterday afternoon. The usual waders were present – Redshank, Curlew, Dunlin, Oystercatcher, Knot and a couple of Grey Plover. Plenty of Lapwing too at Llanrhidian. Good numbers of waterfowl also – Dark Bellied Brent Geese, Shoveller, Teal, Pintail, Shelduck and Wigeon. Also, six species of raptor: Red Kite (at least 2), Peregrine, Merlin, Buzzard (3), Kestrel and a (ring-tail) Hen Harrier. A good start to the year!