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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.
Rhossili early morning. 6 Wheatear, 2 Chough, over 100 Swallows hawking, usual Linnets, Jackdaws. 1 Kestrel.
Family of three Sparrow Hawks practising their hunting skills this morning on the cliff above Mumbles Yacht Club.
Little egret on Middle Head, Mumbles this morning at 08.05.
Long overdue walk from the Brunel dock to the river mouth ,in the Reed bed dock were 5 mallard and a heron At the boat club roost were 12 heron , and 15 little egrets. In the river, jersey marine side were 82 curlew,and 22 mallard. The curlew were on the mud. On the spit in the river mouth (est ) 600+ oyster catchers. By baglan brook was a great spotted woodpecker. 30 black headed gulls,herring and lesser b b gulls were present in small numbers. A few chiff chaff about and house sparrows by the Brunel tower. 4 cormorants… Read more »
4 Yellow wagtail , 1 bright adult . 7 snipe flushed by cattle and approx 65 pied wagtail at Castell Du this am
Oxwich Marsh. Nightjar pre-dawn. A few grey wagtails over and blackcaps still very evident. First returning snipe of the autumn, a tree pipit and a yellow wagtail east
2nd August Crofty, 3 yellow wagtails feeding right next to ponies near children’s park, flew off towards Llanrhidian.
Oxwich Marsh: 49 blackcaps, 9 chiffchaffs made for a late autumn feel. Also grasshopper warbler, 7 Cetti’s warbler and a hornet robberfly.
High tide at Penclawdd this morning: 1 Green Sandpiper, 19 Eider (surprised to see them so far up the river), 11 Pintail.
This afternoon: 1 nice juv Little Gull, 49 Common Tern, 4 Sandwich Tern.
Penclawdd this evening with the high tide. 197 Canada Goose, 1 Graylag Goose, 1 Shoveler, 24 Teal, first of season 2 Pintail, 64 Little Egret, 310 Oystercarcher, 2 Whimbrel, 15 Curlew, 6 Barwits, 10 Blackwits, 2 Knot, 17 Redshank. Also some terns: 22 Common, 5 Sandwich and the highlight of the evening – 1 Arctic Tern with a small group of Common.
Rhossili this morning: 150 shearwater, 65 gannet, and 1 fulmar moving in the channel along with 1 arctic skua and 6 scoter.
Oxwich Marsh: grey wagtail passage evident this morning, 2 grasshopper warbler