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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.
First fledged reed bunting, chiffchaff, reed warbler and sedge warbler of the year at Oxwich this morning.
Castell Du , over the last few days , upto 95 Sand Martin many resting and looked to be foraging on the dried out mud/sand on the edge of the marsh . 1 Common sandpiper , 4 plover
First Barn Owl for some years observed in Middleton at 9pm a couple of nights ago.
South of Loughor Bridge, counts on the mudflats on the falling tide this evening included 195 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Bar-tailed Godwit, 5 Knot (one colour-ringed), 23 Little Egret, 12 Curlew, 554 Oystercatcher and 22 Shelduck. North of Loughor Bridge were 45 Shelduck and 91 Mallard.
20 June Brunel docks Briton ferry.
In the reed bed dock 2 adults and 3 young mallards,Coots
With 4 young, 1 adult morhen with 1 young,also there were a heron swallows ,house sparrows,and whitethroat .
By the tidal dock were 1 adult goldfinch with 1 juv,a pair of bullfinch ,blackbirds with juvs, dunnock the usual herring and lesser b b gulls, a oyster catcher sitting on the jetty,
Monday 17 June. Southgate. Very mobile Chough pair. Kestrel seen hovering/feeding just feet above the water. Single Shelduck seen on rocks below west cliff.
Oxwich Marsh: first fledged Cetti’s warblers of the year yesterday.
The GOS walk in Abegarwad last night was a great success. The rain didn’t reach biblical proportions until were in the cars on the way home and we achieved what we set out to do: we saw three Nightjars, all displaying very well, and heard a fourth. 25 very happy walkers. Many thanks to Ed Hunter for leading us again.
A respectable movement of Manx Shearwaters at Port Eynon this afternoon with 4169 counted going down channel in an hour, also Gannet 12, Guillemot 16, Razorbill 2. The movement was still going on at the same rate when I left at 1600hrs.
Port Eynon this afternoon from the blue badge car park.
200 Manx Shearwaters heading down channel in 1 1/4hrs some very close in, Kittiwake a 1st summer down channel, Gannet 1 adult heading up channel, Turnstone 3 on the foreshore.
Yesterday afternoon at Rhossili.
Gannet 17 feeding in the bay amongst a melee of around 200 large gulls. Chough 2 flying up and down the cliff, Wheatear 1 female feeding at least one young in a crevice just below the cliff edge. No sign of a male.
Neath saltmarsh, viewed from miland road side
3 adult mute swan,2 little egrets,2 mallard, 31 lesser b b gull,40+herring gull,25 starling,12 wood pigeons,also jackdaws, carrion crows,and maps