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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.
Really good numbers of Swallows and House Martins on Cefn Bryn by Reynoldston this evening. Also 2 Yellowhammers singing. 1 Stock Dove calling near to Penrice Castle.
Limeslade to Rotherslade this morning. Plenty of juvenile Stonechats and Goldfinch around. 1 Dartford, 1 Greenfinch. Kestrel over. Highlight was a Sparrowhawk attacking Sparrows in a bush next to Fortes.
Kingfisher flying along Tennant Canal this morning, by Pant y Sais Fen, Jersey Marine.
Flock of SWIFTS: 40+ screaming and feeding on flying ants this afternoon at 17.00hrs over Langland Bay Golf Club.
2 swifts Overland road mumbles 8pm
I swift yesterday evening by liberty stadium
Male Dartford Warbler at 0730 this morning between Rotherslade and Limeslade.
Five Swift’s screaming over the bowling green in Mumbles this morning.
first walk out to Weobley for a few months , Dunlin 138 , Sanderling 5, Ringed Plover 20 , wheatear 6 , Linnet 66, plenty of juvs . 12 Pied Wagtail , 7 Meadow pipit .
122 Redshank at Penclawdd pill ,
4 Comm Sand, 4 LR Plover( 2 juv ), 1green Sand , 1greenshank Castell Du
Hummingbird hawk moth in Langland Court Road this morning (not, I acknowledge, a bird). 3 swifts over the garden this afternoon, perhaps my last of the year.
Oxwich Marsh: 2 garden warbler, fledgling grasshopper warbler, 23 blackcap
Castell Du this morning
Greenshank 1, Common Sandpiper 2, Little ringed Plover 2 juvs, GBBG 2 ads, 2 juvs.
Tankeylake Moor this afternoon.
Yellowhammer 3 males.