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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.
Barn Owl calling at 5:00 am in trees at bottom of garden in Penllergaer.
At Penclawdd Pill= 1 Great white egret fishing with a little Egret right next to the car park was giving very good close views. Also a Greenshank.
At Neath saltmarsh by the A465 roundabout 2 Water Pipits were feeding in the grass just beyond the gate out from the tideline pile of branches.
In Glynneath a Brambling was in my garden early this morning
Two Chough flying around Pennard Cliffs this afternoon. Also a male type blackcap showing well in amongst the house sparrows on West Cliff Southgate.
Colour ringed Curlew at Salthouse Point, Crofty today.
Left: Yellow ring with AC on tab, over blue ring.
Right: Yellow ring only. Sent it in, we’ll see!
That’s fantastic. I scan the curlew flock on University playing fields most days hoping for a ringed bird. Haven’t seen one yet ☹️
20 curlew, 27 Oystercatcher and 6 Common Gull on flooded pitches below University Sports Centre plus a solitary Little Egret on Cwm Stream at the back of Ashleigh Rd playing field.
Similar numbers yesterday, with grey heron too.
Large flock of siskin at blackpill golf course.
60 Mediterranean gulls on the upper shore rocks at Bracelet at high tide included two ringed in Belgium / Holland. Records submitted.
Disappointing high tide roost on the pier: 15 turnstone, 1 dunlin, 1 redshank, 1 oystercatcher
Underhill Park/Peel Wood this afternoon. Long-tailed tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Songthrush, Redwing and Bullfinch amongst the best.
Crofty Field Trip January 2023
Nice walk around Crofty with Goweros this morning, 45 species seen as mentioned previously. Nice to put some faces to names, pleasure meeting you.
Called into Neath on way home for a Cattle Egret, first in NPT for me.
Fenrod lake 23 mute swan, EST 80 CANADA GEESE ,150+ BLACK HEADED GULLS,USUAL COOTS,MOORHENS,POCHARDS TUFTIES,AND a pair of great crested grebes .
At tirJohn pond a pair of mute swans were mating.
Crofty field trip, this morning, we were 27 taking our chances with the weather. Many thanks to Barry Stewart for leading us and finding 41 species, including Guillemot and Spoonbill. A great morning in good company. Bar Tailed Godwit, Black Headed Gull, Blackbird, Brent Goose (BB), Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Collared Dove, Common Gull, Cormorant, Curlew, Dunlin, Golden Eye, Golden Plover, Goldfinch, Great Black Backed Gull, Great Tit, Great White Egret, Greenfinch. Grey Plover, Guillemot, Hen Harrier, Herring Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull, Linnet, Little Egret, Magpie, Oystercatcher, Pied Wagtail, Pintail, Redshank, Reed Bunting, Robin, Shelduck, Shoveler, Sky Lark, Song Thrush,… Read more »
Disappointed you didn’t mention the Liverwort 🤣, which for ref, its common name is Lobed Threadwort (Cephaloziella integerrima) – the only Welsh site of the Nationally Rare species.
Sorry Barry, I didn’t know how to spell it!
Penclawdd this morning at high tide, 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Greenshank among a crowd of Redshanks. Single Grey Heron plus Little Egret, Teal, Shelduck, Mallard, Gadwall (including 2 mating), Curlew, BH Gull, Herring Gull, Common Gull, GBB Gull, LBB Gull, distant small Canada Goose flock towards Lougher. Wigeon at Dalton’s Point and a little further west of that was a flock of dark-bellied Brent Geese and a small number of Greylags grazing.