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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.
I watched the tide up this afternoon first from the car park just to the west of Dalton’s Point then from Salthouse Point. I counted 20 GC Grebes drift up past the former site and another 22 were lying just off the salt marsh as viewed from the latter site. So a healthy 42 GC Grebes in the estuary today. No other species of grebe were seen. Also from Salthouse Point 134 Shoveler flushed out onto the water by a low flying RAF transport aircraft, two GW Egret on the salt marsh and, the bird of the day, a grey… Read more »
Yesterday at Spaniard Rocks, 17 Chough crossed over to Burry Holms and 1400 Common Scoter were scattered on the sea. Few other seabirds noted other than a few Guillemots and Razorbils.
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A male Hen Harrier had been reported on Llanrhidian marsh for the last two days. (per J Stone)
Oxwich Marsh: 5 chiffchaff, 12 long-tailed tit, 2 blackcap, 3 Cetti’s warbler and a flyover red kite. Of note was that on of the Cetti’s warblers was a recapture of a bird ringed in 2016.
21 October pm marsh below Weobley castle; 1 great egret, 2 red kite, 600+ golden plover, 100+ lapwing, 800+ starling, 1 wheatear on track to observation tower.
Yesterday afternoon Llanrhidian Marsh.
At least six GW Egrets, Kingfisher 1
There were 14 of us for the walk at Rhossili this morning. Highlights were a pair of Peregrines entertaining the group for a while before we had even left the car park, 2 flyover Woodlarks, some Choughs, and a couple of late staying juvenile Swallows. 44 species in total with the full list below: Peregrine, Starling, Herring Gull, Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, Jackdaw, Raven, Chough, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Blue Tit, Robin, Magpie, Great Tit, Dunnock, Skylark, Stonechat, Siskin, Linnet, Kestrel, Great Black-backed Gull, Wren, Blackbird, Carrion Crow, Woodlark, House Sparrow, Woodpigeon, Mistle Thrush, Collared Dove, Lesser Redpoll, Bullfinch,… Read more »
Pre match entertainment at Swansea v Leicester today provided by a perigrine eating a pigeon in the rafters of the. West stand lots of people taking photos when the feathers were falling into the crowd it then flew to the top of the East stand still carrying the pigeon .pity about the result.
Castell Du just after HT. Greenshank 5, Dunlin 122 (the most I’ve ever seen here), Curlew Sandpiper 3 juvs, Wigeon 7, Teal 13, Redshank 1, Black t Godwit 3, Lapwing 11, GW Egret 2, Little Grebe 2, Common Sandpiper 3, loads of large gulls and in with which Yellow-legged Gull 1 adult and an adult Herring Gull with dark upper parts, yellowish legs and a extensive streaked hood covering head and breast like an adult Glaucous has, possible a “northern” Herring Gull. Penclawdd car park briefly whilst getting a fish and chip lunch. Greenshank 6 roosting on the bank, Common… Read more »
14 long tailed tits brightened up a dull day in my garden in Briton ferry
At Weobley sands today off the track:1 Short Eared Owl being mobbed by a Pere then circled up high and flew over to Whitford point, 52 Little Egret, 1 Snipe,1 Great White Egret, 137 Dark Bellied Brent Geese,110 Greylag Geese, 205 Shelduck,104 Wigeon, 40 Cormarant on roosts at high tide, 25 GBB Gull, 400 Starling, 300 Golden Plover, 1 Grey plover, 2 Greenland Wheatear- 1 pumpkin orange below most extreme I have seen 1 Red Kite, 5 Red breasted Mergansers- all female imms, 6 G C Grebe, 60 Pintail, 2 Shoveler , 67 Curlew, 55 Skylark , 4 Rock Pipit… Read more »
At Mewslade early morning 1 Ring Ousel, 3 Fieldfare, 20 Redwing , 30 Song Thrush and 40 Blackbird which most left within an hour of light.20 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 8 Goldcrest, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Snipe, 2 Peregrine – pair hunting in tandem Wood pigeons, 90 Jackdaw, 2 Swallow, 3 Chough
At Pitton in the sheltered upper valley- 25 Chiffchaff, 10 Goldcrest, Nuthatch, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker , 5 Siskin, 3 Coal Tit
At Daltons point at low tide 63 Wigeon, 9 Pintail,45 Teal, 175 Black tailed Godwit, 40 Dunlin, 1 Ringed Plover, 6 Shelduck