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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.
Thursday pm pheasant roadkill on the B4271 where it passes Swansea Airport. Red kite circling low over it.
6th Feb – Tawe Rivermouth at low tide: 18 Redshank, 57 Dunlin, 57 Turnstone, 4 Ringed Plover and 1 Oystercatcher. Also 1 Kingfisher and 1 female Black Redstart.
This morning in Oystermouth cemetery one Green Woodpecker calling and three Great Spotted Woodpeckers drumming.
Cracking afternoon on Pwll Du Head. Not a lot of birds, but I did see a pair of Kestrel flying over Cliff Acre as well as a very early Red Admiral flying along the hedgeline.
6th February, great crested grebe in Pwlldu Bay and a blackcap singing in bright sunshine in scrub between the storm beach and the marsh.
Clyne Common this afternoon: two meadow pipits, one skylark and seven snipe.
Mynydd Drumau – 5 Golden Plover
4th February: 110 dark-bellied Brent geese Porteynon beach. Flock of c300 skylark on stubble field west of Overton Mere, near Boiler Rock.
3rd February. Nicholaston woods, blackcap singing heartily near edge of marsh,. 27 sanderling on the shoreline, 28 ringed plover roosting near HWM. 15 great crested grebe close inshore. .
A pleasant walk through Clyne Castle Woods this morning – Marsh/Willow Tit(1) , Goldcrest, Redwing (2), Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Buzzard Jay, Chaffinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker (2,) and Nuthatch (2).
860 Oystercatcher on Swansea beach opposite the Footgolf at 3pm today- the most I’ve seen this winter. Also 11 Curlew.
And a grey wagtail on Cwm Stream at Ashleigh Road – oblivious of the numerous football players!
Male Marsh Harrier quartering over Fairwood Common.