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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.
Mewslade: 5 lesser whitethroats (outnumbering common whitethroats) was a notable count (per Ed Hunter).
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First posting for a while (bad eye infection) 2 pair of house martins still feeding young in llandarcy 4 in one nest and 3 in the
Other.
A successful and enjoyable field trip for 12 members of GOS today, despite storm-force winds and rain early on. The sun came out later and in total we counted 40 species. The weather had brought in 18 Gannets and 60+ Max Shearwater. Good numbers, too of Common and Sandwich terns. Three seals were sheltering inshore from the storm and of the insects, the Bloody-nosed Beetle was a good find, if only for its name! Blackbird Chiffchaff Chough Cormorant Carrion Crow Curlew Dunnock Little Egret Gannett Goldfinch Canada Goose Mediterranean Gull Black Headed Gull Lesser Black Back Gull Greater Black Back… Read more »
11 Swifts sighted over Mumbles Hill on Thursday 17th August at 10.30am
Dalton’s Point this morning: 24 Knot, 265 Black-tailed Godwit, 345 Oystercatcher, 20 Curlew, 89 Redshank. Also 4 Common Tern and a Sandwich Tern fishing in the river.
Penclawdd Marsh this evening: 4 Cattle Egret and a Stock Dove.
Oxwich Marsh am: nightjar (second first winter bird), good numbers of tree pipit (10+), garden warbler. Ringed plover commuting over fields calling. Sparrowhawk.
More than 700 Linnets on the Vile fields and 2 swifts over Middleton yesterday.
Two Swifts circling in the warm air with a Sparrow Hawk over Oystermouth Castle today at 15.00.
2 swifts high just south of liberty stadium over copper quarter yesterday evening
Oxwich Marsh: 2 nightjar, barn owl, 3+ tawny owl, 3 garden warbler, 2 tree pipit, grasshopper warbler.
Southgate: good passage of tree pipit, a few garden warbler and a yellow wagtail (per R Dann)
15th Aug Three swifts screaming over Bishopston mid-afternoon.