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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.
Just seen 3 swifts feeding and screaming over Swansea Marina. I don’t normally see them here but they may be part of the colony on the prison.
Between Limeslade and Langland earlier. 3 Whitethroat, multiple Wrens, Dunnock, Goldfinch, single Fem Linnet, Stonechats and Dartford Warbler pair.
Tawny owl calling and then flying accross Derwen Fawr road close to the car park at the end of the cycle track at 9.30pm this evening.
Few Hobbies from our great day out yesterday at Ham Wall
Forthcoming swift surveys are in Uplands, Brynmill and Mount Pleasant. Details here:https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/event/swansea-swift-surveys/
The Great Reed Warbler seen at Ham Wall yesterday. Photo by Dennis Parks, to whom thanks.
A great field trip to Ham Wall in Somerset; 14 of us went to this very rewarding place. Of the 63 species seen today, the highlights were BITTERN, eight species of Warbler including GREAT REED WARBLER, believed to one of only two of the species in the country at present, and HOBBY. impossible to tell how many Hobbies we saw today, but there was a moment when there were ten in view at once. Again, thanks to Ed Hunter for leading the group today.
Cuckoo also calling on Sunday 7 May about 3pm in Middleton Rhossili then flew into nearby copse
Two swifts over Ashleigh Road at 6.15pm this evening.
Sorry everyone – that should have been cuckoo calling from Fairwood on 11th May!
Brian – apparently it comes with retirement about getting your days and dates mixed up! 🙂
A member of the Clyne Valley Community Group reported an osprey being mobbed by gulls over Rhyd Y Defaid at 16.55 this afternoon.
Cuckoo still calling from Western end of Fairwood Common at 11am on 11th October and again at 3pm.