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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.
Unless I’m cracking up, there is/was a Osprey in Cwm Ivy this after noon at about 14.00. Assume it is the same one that was here earlier in the year.
First year male Ring Ouzel caught and ringed in my garden on West Cliff, Southgate this morning. I also had the recapture of a Firecrest that I had ringed here on 27 October.
1 Kestrel at Southgate yesterday (3rd November)
Today: 1 Kestrel hunting at Fairwood airport and 1 at the Vile, Rhossili. Also at Rhossili, good flocks of Chaffinch, Goldfinch, and Linnet.
Peregrine at Southgate West Cliff this afternoon, and a raft of c130 Common Scoter in the bay.
Flock of 20+ Redwing over the pier going towards Mumbles Hill this morning at 0735
Yellow-browed warbler Pwll Du Head, also green woodpecker. Flock of fieldfare feeding on berries in Southgate East Cliff garden, presumably same as below.
Oxwich Marsh 01 & 02 November
Firecrest (2) – different individuals on the respective days, a few redpoll around (both in and over the marsh). 12 chiffchaff on 01 Nov and 1 on 2 Nov. No eastern cline among them.
Very few snipe present and no jack snipe records yet this autumn.
Richard Dann reported fieldfare at Southgate West Cliff this morning
Tawe Rivermouth at low tide today: 21 Redshank and 1 Oystercatcher. 2 Ringed Plover flew downriver towards the sea. Also 18 Mallard.
Oxwich Marsh: 1 great white egret. May have roosted with the herons on the North Pond as flew through fairly early. Kingfisher, 7 chiffchaff.
30th October 3pm. c400 common scoter Oxwich Bay. Female sparrowhawk and green woodpecker Nicholaston Burrows.
2 Ringed Teal on Fendrod Lake this afternoon (apologies for poor photo taken on my phone). Presumably escapees. Also of note, 2 Great Crested Grebe
A juvenile Hen Harrier was hunting on the Gwrhyd yesterday