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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.
Lots of wrens (7) singing on Langland golf course Saturday morning. Stonechats(4) rock poppet, whitethroat and linnets showing well near Whiteshell point
Report of a likely white-tailed eagle over Southgate, heading towards Parkmill earlier today. Bird being mobbed by crows. Sound likely to be one of the reintroduced birds wandering.
4am alarm for dawn chorus walk with William!
FAIRWOOD LAKE & WOODLAND: Little Grebe very active, min 3f Mallard each with 4 – 8 ducklings of differing ages, 1 Greylag (downy goslings seen by neighbour not seen this morning), Grey Wagtail pair again, Moorhens.
In woods, no wind, loud surround sound song: Tawny Owl, Green Woodpecker, Wood Pigeon, Goldcrest, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Chaffinch, Nuthatch, Goldfinch, Song Thrush, Robin, Blackbird etc.
FAIRWOOD COMMON: Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler, Willow Warbler, Meadow Pipit, Greenfinch, Linnet.
PWLL MAWR (Upper Killay pond): Grey Heron, Mallard, 2 House Martins.
Yesterday I heard Cuckoo from the back garden in the morning i.e. east side of the valley and from the front garden in the afternoon, west side of the valley. Heard one from the west side this morning again.
At Port Eynon this morning Manx Shearwater 177 up channel, Red throated Diver 1 down channel, Fulmar 1, Razorbill 2, Whimbrel 2, Dunlin 25+, Swallow 6 in off sea, Whitethroat 3, Stonechat 3 prs., 1 pr. with 1 juvenile and 2 Harbour Porpoise.
Limeslade to Rotherslade early morning: 3 whimbrel roosting Tutt Head, shag, gannet, tree pipit in off the sea calling. Fledged stonechats, starlings (Langland Golf Course) and song thrush.
Puss moth in Langland this morning
Turtle dove reported at Southgate (Richard Dann) for third consecutive year
Plenty of finches on Langland golf course Thursday morning. Including greenfinch, goldfinch, chaffinch and bullfinch. Blackaps singing, chiffchaff, mistle thrush and seven swallows.
Linnets among a range of common coastal birds near Rotherslade today. Nice to record dingy skipper and small blue (2) though (record shots below). 2 lesser whitethroats reported from Southgate by Richard Dann today
Since we are not able to drive to birdwatching hotspots at present I’m making the most of what’s near home. Starlings are wonderful at the moment, and with their iridescent plumage would not look out of place in a tropical rainforest!
On my local walk today along the River Dulais, I heard 5 singing Wood warblers in a 1km stretch of deciduous woodland. Also saw a pair of Goldcrests with the male’s orange crown very visible, as well as Blackcaps, Willow warblers, Chiff chaffs and a newly-fledged song thrush. No sign of the Dippers today.
Lock down walk from Rotherslade towards Limeslade. Stonechats feeding near fledged young, a pair of linnet and some grey seals, along with a carrion beetle Nicrophorus vespillo (thanks to Amy Schwartz for id).
The increase in dog poo on the coast path is appalling. Seeing the beetle (on some of the aforementioned) has been the only minor recompense!
I have been trying out some noc mig- night time flight call recording of migrants over Glynneath over the last couple of weeks which has been quite interesting really. It has shown that Barn Owl is a nightly visitor with 2 on one occasion. Other residents calling at night have been Grey Heron and Tawny Owls and Magpie. Migrant wise there has been 14 Common sandpipers with 6 on the 27th April. Also 3 coots – 24th, 1 Moorhen and a Whimbrel. A Ringed plover on the 26th April – interestingly it was this ringed plover call that triggered the… Read more »