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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.
The quays Briton ferry
I the Brunel dock 20+redshank at the monk house . boat club roost were 9 little egrets and 5 heron along the river was1 whimbrel a few curlew seen and heard hundreds of black headed gulls about a few swallows ,stonechat and meadow pipit nice to see Dave Cornish there lots of oyster catchers on the spit
Productive evening at Llanrhidian Marsh this evening. Star bird was a Glossy Ibis flying to the roost site along with 8 Great Whiite & 18 Little Egrets . Also a Cattle Egret picked out by Barry Stewart & Rob Jones. Other species included 91 Greylags, 60+ Canada Geese,136 Herring Gulls,47 Lesser black-Backed Gulls 13 Cormorants, 5 Grey Herons 79 Carrion Crows and a imm. Kestrel. Snipe heard in the gathering gloom plus a probable Noctule bat & Pipistrelles. With Phil Routliff & Rob Jones.
Whiteshell Point. I have just had a very energetic two hours, getting down to the wave-cut platform at the extreme spring low. I had hoped to find and photograph the propeller of the SS Agnes, wrecked in 1886. I will have to try again, but I am getting closer. I saw two choughs, which was good, and a peregrine chasing a feral pigeon to and fro through my field of view. I did not see the climax.
Flock of 8 chough at Langland headland Thursday 17th am. Wheatear at Whiteshell and goldcrest on Langland Golf Course. 200 starlings at Pwll Du Head Thursday pm
This morning at Whiteshell Point. A Gannet out to sea and a Chough inland near the 8th Tee. At Langland 50 B H Gulls and 4 Med Gulls.
Constant stream of migrating Swallows over Clyne this afternoon. Sky Lark, Wheatear, Med Gull and Kestrel also noted.
Six Brent Geese at West Cross near the West X hotel this morning at 07.20.
at Mewslade the wind direction change helped migrant numbers i am sure- 5 Spotted Flycatchers at the gate (coming out of the farm trees before valley opens up) 1 lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 17 Blackcap, 15 Chiffchaff a Juv Green woodpecker .Over moving a few Siskin , 1 Yellow Wagtail and 12 Skylark. 40 House Martin and lots of Swallows on the move at Middleton 1 Spotted Fly At Ramsgrove 2 Chough and 4 Chiffchaff lots of Red Admiral and a Comma butterfly in the ivy at Penclawdd 2 Red kite, 4 Pintail my first of autumn , 32 Teal… Read more »
Photos of the night heron found today near Burry Green, on Burry Pill North Gower by Andrew Fowkes
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1 Great White Egret on the marsh at Llandimore today.
Surely we should not be hearing song in September. By the Wildflower Cafe in Blackhills Lane – a willow warbler. At Murton Farm Shop later in the afternoon – blackcap.
I’ve heard song from migrants at this time of year, I’ve always assumed it’s because the day length is similar to that in spring and this triggers song in some individuals
At Swansea bay this evening there were 380 Med gulls around the Blackpill part of the bay. Managed to read 12 colour rings but many more present. 11 Light Bellied Brent geese was very welcome to see – 2 family,s and presumably fresh in?- but a drone out over bay buzzing everything and me- unfortunately spooked them and they left heading west.
At Port Eynon today there was a minimum of 67 Sandwich terns roosting on the beach bringing food to still some begging Juvs. in with them 3 new red ringed birds different to a bird a few days ago. There were just 32 Med gulls but 85 Ringed plovers gave fantastic views for scrutinising and 3 were Tundra Ringed Plover types were in with them. 11 Sanderling – 2 ads rest juvs, 1 knot – juv, 24 Turnstone, 2 Dunlin and a Peregrine
This am
Castell Du. Pied Wagtail 103, including one alba, Teal 20, Snipe 4, Kingfisher 1, Goosander 1, Spotted Flycatcher 1.
Loughor Bridge. Bar t Godwit 8, Bl t Godwit 18, Dunlin 15. A flock of around 30 Dunlin containing a smaller calidrid, presumably a Little Stint flew up river but , unfortunately, they settled on the Carms side towards the bridge from Morgan Bacas.
At Port Eynon today I met up with Renauld for a few hours. There were 127 Mediterranean Gulls with around 80 leaving high north inland around 11.30 where they appeared to be initially anting but then disappeared and did not return by 1.30pm. There were 4 colour ringed Med gulls including a Hungarian ringed bird. Yesterday Renauld saw a colour ringed bird here and then the same bird later at Swansea Bay in the evening. Around 21 Sandwich Terns with a red ringed bird (KKK). Also there was 1 Knot, 6 Dunlin,45 Ringed plover, 7 Sanderling, 2 Common Gull, 2… Read more »
This pm
Oxwich
Kingfisher one in the NNR, very overgrown with reeds again, little open water. A great shame, I remember breeding Pochard there!
In the bay C’n Scoter 9, Sandwich Tern 2, Med Gull 39.
Penclawdd. C’n Sand 1, Greenshank 1, Redshank 172
Renauld Flamand (the co-ordinator of the Europe-wide colour ringing project on Mediterranean gulls) counted 600+ Mediterranean gulls roosting on the sea in Swansea Bay yesterday.
The American Road from Weobley to the artillery ranging tower this morning: green sandpipers, flocks of linnets, c200 geese (presumably Canadas and GL) flying east along the escarpment and alighting at Little Wernhalog, mute swan in flight, 2 or 3 grey heron, 2 little egret, half a dozen skylarks, small flock pied wagtails, collared dove heard (yes, from far down the marsh), green woodpecker and pheasant heard at a distance, ravens, carrion crows, flock of starlings, and in the woodland at Weobley a buzzard.
Loughor Bridge in the run up to HT
Bl t Godwit 31, Bar t Godwit 6, Dunlin 12, Curlew Sand 2 juvs, Greenshank 1, Little Egret 19, GC Grebe 2, Teal 3, Swan 2.
Dalton’s Point Teal 76
Llanrhidian Green Sand 3, Gadwall 6, Shoveler 9, Greylag 229, GW Egret 1, Greenshank 2, Lapwing 18, Teal 74, Snipe 1
Margam Sands with Phil Routliff- 8 Sandwich Terns,c200 Herring Gulls,2 adult & 1 imm. Great black-backed gulls,53 Oystercatchers,6 Curlew,5 Ringed Plovers.
On the run up to HT
Loughor Bridge
Dunlin 26, Ringed Plover 4, Bar t Godwit 11 juvs, C’n Sand 1, Bl t Godwit 18, Curlew 18, Greenshank 1
On the run up to HT at Loughor Bridge
Spoonbill 1 heading towards the WWT
Bar t God 3 juvs, Bl t God 4, GC Grebe 2, Guillemot 1
Weobley Track – great few hours this morning on the tide 700 Dunlin, 280 Ringed Plover, 9 Golden Plover, 1 Turnstone, 1 Green Sandpiper, 6 Curlew sandpipers – but figure most likely larger due to there been waders all around being flushed at times by 2 Peregrines so lots of mixing of flocks. Birds not commuting to Whitford point it seemed The Peregrines were a adult with a juv hunting together. Also 24 Ravern, 1 Sparrowhawk , 4 Great White Egrets, 1 Wheatear. Still no sign of Stints…