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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.
Castell Du 07:45 …a fine 20 mins on the rising tide .2Curlew Sand , 1 Little stint the highlights , with 5 Dunlin , 4 Greenshank , 2 Green sand .
At Bwllchymynydd further down the river , 1 Greenshank, 1 Common sand , 46 Shelduck , 38 Teal , 2 Black-wit , 2 Curlew , 24 Oyc
Thur 14 Sept – flock of approx 30 Brent Geese in the wake off Blackpill lido at evening high tide.
Broughton Bay and Burrows this afternoon.
Oystercatcher 210, Eider 24 (10 drakes), Common Scoter 3 (2 drakes), Stonechat 5 pairs plus 3 young, Linnet a flock of 73.
Castell Du on the HT this evening.
A roost of 18 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint, 5 Greenshank, 1 Common Sandpiper all flushed by two motor boats coming up river and eventually flying downstream. 67 Pied Wagtails on the salt marsh.
Dalton’s Point this afternoon.
Redshank 217, Knot 19, Bl t Godwit 103, Dunlin 9, Teal 105, Wigeon 1, GC Grebe 1, Pintail 3
Port Eynon this afternoon.
Ringed Plover 35, Dunlin 1, Gannet 11 down channel, Curlew 1, Sandwich Tern 6, Oystercatcher 8, Turnstone 11.
Bwllchymynydd foreshore car park this evening.
Mallard 198, Teal 219, Dunlin 20, Ringed Plover 4, Shelduck 44, Pintail 34, Little Egret 74, GW Egret 1.
Bwllchymynydd foreshore car park on the run up this evening.
Pintail 96, GW Egret 2, Teal 30
A write up of the Welsh Ringing Course hosted by Gower Ringing Group is here:
https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/the-welsh-ringing-course-2023/
Well done Owain Gabb.Great read and interesting information.Thank you.
Osprey flying north over Pennard Castle 15.15 hrs today.
Oxwich Marsh 8-11 September: 135 blackcap, 293 barn swallows, 50 chiffchaff, 12 reed warbler, 19 sedge warbler, 3 grasshopper warbler, 12 whitethroat, 8 willow warbler, female kingfisher and a first winter wryneck all trapped and ringed.
Fly over yellow wagtail among other species noted moving through.
Neil Holden reports Peregrine falcon on Thurba Head around 11am today.
19 choughs on Rhossili Downs ridge around 4pm today, Sunday
Friday 8th Mewslade .. 2 Willow warbler , 8 chiffchaff , 3 whitethroat , 1Dartford,1 Garden. 9 Blackcap. c.14 Robin, Kestrel, Green Wood, 5 stonechat. 2 blue tit , 4 great tit plus a a few dunnock .
Rhossili Sat 9th 7:45-9:00. ..c. 25 Mead pip in suitable fields ,, moving around . 8 stonechat , 7 Robin , Kestrel , 3 mobile Goldfinch/Linnet flocks approx 40 per flock. 19 Pied wag in the inly ploughed/harrowed field . a few hirundines moving around . only migrants ; fly-over Tree pipit, Yellow wag and 2 Siskin ….
Owain Gabb reports the Gower Ringing Group caught and ringed a first year WRYNECK in Oxwich this morning.
A second for this site.
Penclawdd this morning; 1 Great White Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper.