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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.
A flock of 8 Yellowhammers just south of Scurlage today. Also a flock of 16 Stock Doves south of Pilton Green, with more seen near Middleton.
First Swallow of the year for me by the River Tawe, Ynystawe. Also, singing Willow Warbler at Swansea Vale, one of my earliest ever records at this location.
Penllergare Valley Woods walk today: 25 turned out for a good morning’s walk. 33 species found. Thanks again to Rob Taylor for his expertise…
Grey Wagtail Dipper Kingfisher Canada Goose Little Grebe Coot Cormorant Mallard Moorhen Song Thrush Mistle Thrush Blue Tit Coal Tit Great Tit Great Spotted Woodpecker Blackbird Chaffinch Chiffchaff Dunnock Goldcrest Goldfinch Nuthatch Robin Siskin Treecreeper Wren Carrion Crow Jackdaw Jay Magpie Wood Pigeon Buzzard Lesser Black Backed Gull
Wintering male blackcap is still around my Tycoch garden, although less reliant and bossy with the bird feeders recently.
Just watched a Ringtail go down in Llanrhidian Marsh and not come back up, so I assume she is roosting.
Interesting. I was regularly following hen harriers at Llanrhidian Marsh a few years ago. Typically 2, 3, or 4 birds coming in to roost at dusk, usually communally in slightly raised bramble area beyond Llanrhidian village. They do a typical half-corkscrew thing as they drop down to roost. I was talking to birder at Llanrhidian Marsh recently who said they no longer roost at Llanrhidian Marsh – more over Llangennith / Broughton way. There would also be 1, 2, up to 3 birds coming in to roost at Oxwich Marsh. Without being at different roost sites at the same, difficult… Read more »
Mewslade to Rhossili Coastguards.
In the valley, 2 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, Kestrel, Chiffchaff
On walk over, lots of Linnets, Dunnock and Stonechat.
1 Dartford Warbler, 2 Chough, Raven.1 Wheatear in Fall Bay on coast grass strip
No Fulmars on usual cliff nesting site.
There is a male HH on the ground out on Llanrhidian Marsh preening right now
Sorry the great video wouldn’t load . Male Sparrow Hawk was terrorising small birds in a bush near our bird feeder for about 15 minutes
Persistence pays off .. this was one of 4 attempts !! He eventually flushed out a Coal Tit.
Spotted curlews 20 to 30 and oystercatcher on ashleigh Road swansea
Oxwich Bay: 1 red-throated diver, a few great crested grebe and the flock of (several hundred) common scoter off Southgate this morning. Waders on the foreshore limited to a few oystercatchers.
Firecrest currently at River Tawe, Ynystawe. Half way along the cycle path between the M4 bridge and the bridge near Ynystawe Park.