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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.
Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler and Nightjar at Crynant yesterday evening at dusk (22nd May)
Tree Pipit this morning on Bryn Bach Rd, Pontlliw.
Fledgling Dartford warbler on the east Gower cliffs this morning. Still some light passage of whimbrel. Swifts over the Co-op and later Chapel Street in Mumbles.
Oxwich Marsh: cuckoo, first fledgling chaffinches of the year. First siskins last week
2 Swifts above Manselton. First of the year here
First swifts of the year.. 3 screaming low around the shop roof tops Station road Port Talbot..
And three more over the bowling green in Mumbles this morning.
A pair of Egyptian geese at Port Talbot Dock yesterday (per Darryl Spittle)
Counts of the Black-tailed Godwit flock in the upper part of the Burry over the last 3 evenings have been 403, 413 & 456. Other counts included 895 Oystercatcher, 6 Curlew (1 colour-ringed), plus Spoonbill, Peregrine and Med Gull
With current swift interest, several swifts ‘screaming’ overhead around Tycoch College area.
Rhossili and Mewslade. 2 Chough, Linnets with males in full breeding plumage, Kestrel, Red Kite, Swallows, House Martins (first I’ve seen this year), Fulmars – only 2 pairs, don’t know whether they’ve been and gone, not arrived or low numbers. Pair of Razorbills in water off inner Worm
Two Swifts reported in Langland Bay this afternoon. Swifts have nested in the cliff behind the old convalescent home in the past.
A Red Kite with a rat over Crofty yesterday afternoon.