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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.
Jack snipe at Oxwich this morning
Redwings calling as passing over tonight. Heard Central Swansea, Killay, and Dunvant.
Redwings over central Swansea this morning.
Oxwich Marsh (7-8 October): summer blackcaps almost gone. Chiffchaffs, goldcrests present in moderate numbers.
Swallow movement east on 08/10.
Castell Du this morning :
22 Lapwing , 4 Snipe , 9 Teal on the farm pond . 12 Skylark, 24 Meadow pipit ,20 Pied wag . 2 Greenshank , 1 Green sand.
7/10/23 2 choughs over Caswell Bay (eastern side), 1 swallow over fields just to the north
… that should have been western side!
07/10/23: Salthouse Point slipway, 3.30pm, female merlin pursuing linnets over the marsh then skimming the foreshore. 4 curlew, 12 shelduck, 400+ black tailed godwit.
Numerous Swallows feeding this morning in the fields between Bishopston and Caswell. Looked like they were then heading East, consistent with Jeremy’s earlier post.
This morning at 0800 a constant stream of migrating Swallows flying easterly at Mumbles Head and Bracelet Bay. Perhaps 40 a minute.
Penclawdd high tide yesterday morning:
6 Canada Goose, 35 Shelduck, 4 Gadwall, 16 Wigeon, 11 Mallard, 155 Teal, 221 Pintail, 250 Oystercatcher, 1 Golden Plover, 31 Curlew, 19 Dunlin, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 85 Redshank,
Oxwich Marsh: 2 grasshopper warblers, sedge warbler, 41 blackcap, 19 chiffchaff, water rail, 5 stonechat among 113 birds captured (101 ringed 12 recaptured)
Interesting a few gropper and sedge warblers still about, end of September. You might expect long gone. Shows the value of capturing and ringing.
Crossbills moving over Langland this afternoon in small parties.
A picture of the Magnolia warbler at Baglan Energy Park, NPT, courtesy of Mike Cram.