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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.
Clyne Common this morning. Two spotted flycatcher, approx 20 chiffchaff, 3 willow warbler, 3 raven, 2 nuthatch, 1GSW.
Out at Weobley on this mornings high tide , good spread of small waders : 420 Dunlin , 400 Ringed plover , 35 Sanderling , 9 Knot , 7 Turnstone . 75 Linnet , 18 Meadow pipit , 22 Pied wag , 4 Wheatear . 5 Reed bunting and 4 Sedge warbler by the bridge . Juv Goshawk had the crows panicked . Up at Castell Du , 8 Greenshank , 4 Common sand , mixed flock of 42 Mallard and Gadwall (eclipse) on Grove farm pond roosting . single Yellow wag amongst 30 plus Pied wag . Juv Whinchat… Read more »
Nice couple of hours at Crofty this morning on the high tide: usual species included good numbers of Oystercatcher and Curlew, plus a few Whimbrel, Shelduck, LBB Gulls, GBB Gulls, Little and (3) Great White Egret. An Osprey did a nice fly-past, chased by various gulls. Smaller species included Linnet, Whitethroat and Goldfinch, plus good numbers of Swallows feeding over the marshes.
Two Common Swift above Clydach this evening.Last of the summer maybe ?
Crofty roost this evening in wet and murky conditions: 18 Sandwich, 15 Common & 2 Arctic Terns, 143 Common Gull, Whimbrel & 57 Curlew
Common terns at Crofty
Oxwich Marsh: nightjar, 8 reed warbler, 4 blackcap, chiffchaff early morning
Fenrod lake today,
30+mute swan,35 Canada geese,42. Black headed gulls,
60 herring gulls lots of juvs.
A few lesser b b gulls,usual coots,morhens,lots of mallard
In eclipse plumage a few tufted and a little grebe.
Last few days has seen tree pipit moving through, with 2 at Oxwich and 4 at Southgate.
At Oxwich Marsh: grasshopper warbler, now 5:1 reed warbler to sedge warbler, with the local breeding sedges having apparently moved. Small numbers of willow warbler moving through and some very young chiffchaffs and wrens. Marsh tit in the reed bed (which there has been for at least a week) is less than annual, despite the good breeding population in the surrounding ancient semi-natural woodland. Kingfisher on the main channel.
Rheola pond
23 Cormorants roosting was a great count, also a moulting male Tufted
Weobley track
2 Great White egrets, 130 Linnet, 180 starling, 2 Golden Plovers, 4 Raven, 2 wheatear, green wood calling on way down, 15 GBB gull,2 Commic tern on est, 20 Rook feeding on SM.
Port Eyon
1 Arctic Skua, 2 Manx Shearwaters, 1 Dunlin, 2 Turnstone
,31 Med Gull ( 6 juvs) inc 3ILE white ringed ( old bird first obs this year)….17 Sandwich Tern
I’ve looked a few time this week for Chris’ gull, each search unsuccessful, mainly as the birds have mostly been sleeping. Counts of other species have included Canada Goose 312 (this, the biggest flock I’ve personally seen in the Burry/Loughor), Great White Egret 1, Herring Gull 155, Lesser Black-backed Gull 211, Little Ringed Plover 4, Ringed Plover 10, Dunlin 1, Greenshank 4, Common Sand 2, Green Sand 3, Whimbrel 1, Pied Wagtail 81 and Stock Dove 3.
possible ad Caspian gull up at Castell Du . seen at distance , bill , and posture looked ok hard to get any images of worth .
Crymlyn Burrows beach: Common ringed plover nest with one adult and 3 small chicks. The chicks looked only a few days old.
Dear All We are now in the breeding season. For Schedule 1 species at risk of disturbance at the nest, we need to ensure that any sightings do not provide information that may lead to their disturbance. This includes cliff-nesting species such as Dartford warbler and chough which have been targeted by photographers (some of whom have used tape lures) in recent years, and species expanding their range / becoming locally commoner in some parts of the recording area such as red kite and goshawk. Please be aware of this in your posting. A list of Schedule 1 species that… Read more »