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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.
First Spotted Flycatcher of the year, Cwm Clydach
A pair of Swifts reported at Langland this morning by RJM near the old convalescent home.
Two Cuckoos seen flying together at Cartersford this morning at 08.00.
Whitethroat on Mumbles side of Clyne Common this morning..
Still a selection of waders in the estuary off Berthllwyd: 812 Oystercatcher, 2 Grey Plover, 10 Bar-tailed Godwit, 582 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Curlew and a lonesome Dunlin
Yellowhammer singing away… Hangman’s Cross Penrice 6.00pm 01/06/23
Pair Dartford Warblers Heathland
Overlooking North Gower Coast 5.30pm 31/05/23…
Cuckoo calling at 1.15 today at Western end of Fairwood Common.
Yellowhammer in song near Reynoldston 8.00pm 29/05/23
Yellowhammer in song near Reynoldston 8.00pm 29/05/23…
Checked the house martins at Lon coed house llandarcy at the moment there are 8 occupied nests lots of birds flying about ,so I expect there will be more.
On the back road behind Amazon one of the factory roofs had 4 occupied herring gull nests
A pair of Little Ringed Plovers, Loughor estuary this morning, 23 May