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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.
Oxwich Marsh: the first fledged siskin of the year captured and ringed.
Also an 8 year old great tit.
Whitethroat near coastal path between Caswell Bay and Brandy Cove 13:45 on 06/05.
730 pm grasshopper warbler reeling from long vegetation between Limeslade and Langland
Cuckoo calling Fairwood Common 5/5/23 7:00 pm onwards.
Grasshopper Warbler between Langland and Limeslade: per Pete Ford.
6 Common Swift over Clydach this afternoon.
Cuckoo calling briefly from western end of Fairwood Common (between Ilston turning and Airport) at 11am this morning
2 cr birds noted
Ringed Plover, Left: Red above knee, Right Yellow flag PTZ above knee.
Whimbrel Left: R/W above knee, Right G/O above knee.
Any info on the origins of these Owain?
Barry your Whimbrel may be from this scheme, if not you’ll find it on this web site
https://cr-birding.org/node/4212
News on the ringed plover is that it was ringed in August 2015 (having been mist netted) at Makkevika (62*30’29”N-006*01’37”E) (Giske Ornithological Station), Møre & Romsdal, Norway bySunnmøre Ringing Group
Whiteford is 1354 km SSW of this, and there had been no observations of the bird reported during the previous 7 years, 8 months and 11 days.
Nothing on the whimbrel as yet.
350 Whimbrel at Whiteford yesterday evening. https://photos.app.goo.gl/2aUhf3p3qE2AC7BC7
Also, 1 Curlew, 49 Bar-tailed Godwit , c200 Ringed Plover, c150 Dunlin, 7 Knot, 54 Eider, 5 Common Scoter. Lots of distant Manxies in Carmarthen Bay
Wheatear on Cefn Bryn late afternoon. Big fire in progress near Broadpool.
The first Swansea swift walk of the year is this evening. See (it takes you to 9 swift surveys with locations and meeting times).
I have good views over Singleton Park, Sketty and enjoy watching groups of swifts from the house. The sky over Singleton is bereft of swifts at the moment, let’s hope for the best.
Grasshopper Warbler singing at Pant Y Sais fen yesterday 4pm near the entrance to the boardwalk