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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.
Lockdown walk. No surprises today. Rock pipits, more fledgling stonechats and some offshore gannets, but a lizard trying to catch a small blue butterfly was interesting.
An unscheduled trip to Morriston Hospital this evening. Lots of house martins breeding under the eves on the way to Accident & Emergency (and daughter’s ankle not badly damaged it would seem)
Lockdown walk along the cliffs at Rotherslade: whitethroat feeding young with flower beetles, fledgling stonechats, singing rock pipit and a shag flying east.
Moths this morning included an orange footman. Less than 10 previous county records noted in the Moths of Glamorgan (Gilmore, Slade & Stewart).
Lots of singing blackaps, wrens and treecreepers in Bishop’s Wood Saturday. Also a pair of buzzards. Fledgling stonechats and whitethroat on territory on Langland Golf Course.
#Lockdown Golf at Pennard yesterday
5 whitethroats on territories
1 family party of 3 stonechats plus 1 other male
many mipits
Nice hunting kestrel
Many rooks looking for leatherjackets on the Links..
It was very windy on my local walk this morning. I saw a juvenile Stonechat sitting on a prominent piece of vegetation with the male nearby alarm calling. I moved away and watched the juvenile pay no attention at all to start with but it finally decided it had better move! I had a Lesser redpoll fly over and several Blackcaps singing but nothing was flying around otherwise.
Hi Heather could you add your location to your sightings please? That would be very helpful. Thank you
Green woodpecker in the garden, seemingly ignoring Christine, who sat quietly nearby. A hint of movement from me and it was off: shy birds of course. Probably the female of few days ago.
Mid morning: male cuckoo heard in the vicinity of Broadley Farm, Northway/ Clyne Common.
I heard him yesterday.
Oxwich Nature reserve 5.30am this morning Cuckoo calling for over an hour. Heard and seen.
Lone swallow singing loudly from my t.v ariel in killay tonight at 6pm.
Four swallows over the house this afternoon. The first I have seen here this year.
I had a pair of Lesser redpolls on the feeders this morning, the first seen in my garden since early April. A bit later on a male Sparrowhawk landed on top of the feeding station for a minute or so before flying off.
Lockdown Walk this morning..
Surprised to see a pair of red kites circling over Pyle Corner in Bishopston..