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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.
Pwlldu 18th Feb, blackcap singing at lunchtime from middle of bramble and blackthorn at the edge of the marsh, sotto voce (almost drowned out by a nearby blackbird), Eventually glimpsed a browncap. Have female blackcaps ever been recorded singing or is it more likely that a male was still skulking inside ?
Port Talbot Dock: grey phalarope and 6 purple sandpiper (per Darryl Spittle)
NOC mic …..Now a second Moorhen…. migrating up the valley in this rain and mist over Glynneath was surprising. To clarify 2 birds in last hour!
Solitary dipper on Clyne River “loop walk” earlier this afternoon- downstream of Railway Inn.
Watching my granddaughter rugby training at cwrt Herbert under floodlights when about 200+ jackdaws flew over flying South East
Heard them first then seen them at 6.45
Thank you to everyone who has sent in bird records for 2022 for Gower and Neath and Port Talbot -these are much appreciated.
Hi Terry just to let you know I have received your records safe and sound.
all the best
Ed
Thanks eddie all the best
Terry
Firecrest in Langland this morning. Indeterminate sex. Very light orange tone to crown.
Two blackcap yesterday.
Swansea vale
Nant a fenrod pond 32 black headed gulls,pair of mute swans,pair of Canada geese, moorhens,and coots
A flock of 373 Herring Gull and 9 Lesser Black Back Gull on Lower Lliw Reservoir this morning(14/02/23)
Cadaxton salt marsh a m.male and female goosander,surprised to see a seal in the river opposite Morrison’s,don’t know what species as it went down stream,also of note a small tortishell.
A summary of 2022 for the Gower Ringing Group is HERE: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/the-ringing-year-2022-gower-ringing-group/
Neath salt marsh
From miland rd side
Fairly quiet today 90 black headed gulls,40+herring gulls,10 lesser black backed gulls,1 female goosander,a few mallards,cormorant,
just one Canada goose today ,otherwise blackbirds,pied wagtails,wood pigeon,collard dove,and goldfinch.