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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.
Nice to see Yellowhammer at Cwm Dulais.
Dartford warbler between Limeslade and Rotherslade this morning.
Delighted to see my first Wryneck this morning in Mewslade.
Slightly better shot
26th August kingfisher Bishopston Valley.
Cadaxton salt marsh from the view point 3 female goosander,kingfisher,and 21 mallard.
I swift over mumbles. 🙂
Oxwich Marsh: grasshopper warbler, tree pipit (3), 36 blackcap
Oxwich Marsh: 2 nightjar again this morning. Also 1 grasshopper warbler. Small influx of blackcap apparent.
21st August 3pm. 11 sandwich tern heading south from Broughton to Burry Holme. Lots of adult and juvenile herring gulls at north end of Rhossili beach, 600+
Neath saltmarsh est 150 Canada geese spread out over the marsh 2.30 pm
Penclawdd Marsh yesterday at noon; 4 Sandwich, 1 Common and 1 Black Tern fishing in the river. 6 Whimbrel on the marsh.
Tutt Head 1400-1515hrs
Surprisingly little of note, a few Kitts heading into Swansea Bay, a raft of five Guillemots and two each of grey seal and harbour porpoise. However the afternoon was saved late on by a dark phase adult Arctic Skua heading down channel close in.
This evening South of the Loughor bridge on the run up. Greenshank 1, Bar t Godwit 3, Whimbrel 2, Shelduck 18.