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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.
Quiet morning for birds on Pennard Cliffs today but a small ringing session included a Firecrest, late Willow Warbler and a couple of Redwing amongst the catch. Small flock of Mistle Thrush and a Red Kite seen passing overhead, both westwards.
Oxwich Marsh: 2 firecrests, influx of song thrush, some redwings over around dawn. Very few snipe present, possibly due to high water levels.
Langland: this PM 15 mistle thrushes with a few smaller thrushes (song thrush / redwing) in a vocal flock over Langland Corner
Male Sparrowhawk in our Bishopston garden just now.
Peregrine low over morfa retail park at dusk
14th Oct. 8 redwing over Bishopston, my first this year.
13th October: 2 Swallows feeding over the Lower Lliw Reservoir and at least 5 Red Kites in the area around both Reservoirs. Several Mistle Thrushes feeding on Rowan Berries.
Many thanks to Wayne Morris for the Rock Pipit details- This was the first re-sighting of the bird which was ringed at Sker point, near Kenfig on 2 December 2022 – so it had moved some distance.We can have a look for it or other colour ringed birds on the walk next week
Port Eynon yesterday late pm 49 Gannet, 53 Cmn scoter flying east, 4 Shag, 9 oystercatchers, 175 Med Gulls on the beach. Later in [poor light- likely this big undercount) 250 were roosting in the bay with 60 Bk Headed Gulls and 10 Common Gulls. 2 Sandwich Tern, 38 Ringed Plover, 12 Turnstone, 2 chiffchaff. Also Tawny and Barn Owl heard overnight calling from near the tent. Today Port Eynon– 2 Curlew, 1 Arctic Skua, 45 Gannet, 89 Cmn Scoter, 5 + Harbour Porpoise, 3+ Common Dolphin, 4 Rock pipit – including a colour ringed bird ( see attached pics)… Read more »
The Rock pipit is from the Gower project and details submitted through the links available on this website (in the News section) should you come across such a bird
Oxwich Marsh: 2 yellow-browed warbler ringed (in addition to the two ringed on 12/10 and additional bird seen).
11th October 200+ scoter off Oxwich Point. Male Dartford warbler Pwlldu Head.
12th October 33 gannets fishing off Caswell this afternoon..
A kestrel was hunting successfully in the gorse and bracken at Rotherslade this afternoon and a chough was flying and calling at Limeslade. 4 buzzards were taking advantage of the thermals over Langland Golf Course on Friday afternoon being mobbed by jackdaws, crows and magpies. A single Med gull was looking for food on the 8th fairway.
One of 3 yellow-browed warblers at Oxwich today