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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.
31st January, River Tawe from Ynystawe Park to Plasmarl foot and cycle bridge. 13 goosander, 3 tufted duck, 22 mallard, 21+ teal (teal on Ynysforgan flood relief pool), 2 dipper, 6 moorhen, heron and a kite
30th January late afternoon, 2 firecrest in holly tree above stream east side of Pwll du Bay
29th January. Llanrhidian. 4 great egrets, female hen harrier, 2 snipe, 20 teal, 65 shoveler, c800 golden plover in flight on shoreline, 23 greylags overhead.
sorry, 5 shoveler, not 65 !
Brynmill Park Lake – 1 Kingfisher this morning, on small island in south-west corner; appeared to fly off over Brynmill Lane to Singleton Park. Also , last year’s Mute Swan youngsters showing courtship behaviour with each other.
Fenrod lake ,
75 Canada geese,31 mute swan,15 coot,20 moorhen ,est 200+ herring gull,at least 300 black headed gulls,3 goosander 1 male 2 fem,14 tufteds, 4 pochard,usuall mallards and hybreds,and a few chaffinches.
A good hour’s birding in my Upper Killay garden this morning (28/1) for the RSPB Birdwatch.
20 species included: Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Pied Wagtail, Redwing, Nuthatch, G S Woodpecker & 3 Goldfinches. Plus 2 hours later a Sparrowhawk.
Pwll du: marsh tit, sparrowhawk, kestrel. 10+ bullfinch. Green woodpecker.
Langland this week: blackcap (2), and the tawny owls on Southward Lane and Brynfield Road very vocal.
Thank you very much for a very interesting talk on Peregrine Falcons tonight. It was quite appropriate that I watched two Peregrines trying, and failing, to get a Greenshank in Llanelli WWT this morning. The photo is of one of the Peregrines. Has anyone seen a blue ring like the one on this Peregrine? Also, do the markings on the Peregrine look OK to you?
Superb photo Ruth.Brilliant.
The Greenshank was amazingly still alive when I left!
A quiet high tide at Ashleigh Road this morning – 31 Curlew, 29 0ystercatcher, 14 Common Gull, 30 Starling & 4 Mistle Thrush
22 Canada geese flying South East over Briton ferry at dusk
25/01/23
I scanned the marsh from a high view point this afternoon to check on the number of GW Egrets. There were three on Llanrhidian Marsh, one at Wernffrd and one at Penclawdd, so a total of five on view. Also a brown Merlin on the marsh at Little Wern-halog.
Slightly soggy walk around Oystermouth Cemetery this afternoon: Two GS woodpeckers drumming (1 seen), nuthatch, song thrush, wren and a number of long tailed tits. Female blackcap has been a regular visitor to the feeders in my Caswell garden since New Year.