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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.
2 Firecrest on Southward Lane, Langland.
Whitford point; 3 Great northern Divers together off point then later off hide. 1 Diver spp flew up and landed distantly off Wernffrdd /llanrhid.1 stunning male Merlin, 245 Dark Bellied Brent, 1 Light bellied Brent, 4 Red Breasted Merganser, 37 Grey Plover, 15 Knot, 122 Curlew,115 Shelduck, just 7 Eider, 1 Common Scoter, 1 Gannet, 1 Tawny Owl ( day hunting in pines), 4 Chiffchaff , 14 Bullfinch – also lots Teal, Wigeon, and Pintail Daltons Point 6 Spoonbill in close channel on the rising tide. Landimore, Broadlands farm: 51 Lapwing Wernffrwd: 30 Dark bellied Brent, 58 Greylag, 17 Golden… Read more »
Black Redstart at the Bay Campus today
Daltons Point – 1 Whooper swan- drifting up with the tide, 7 Spoonbill (inc 1 in the channel close to road the others just the other side). 3 Black Tailed godwit Crofty: 120 Dark bellied Brent Geese, 1 Light Bellied Brent Goose, 2 Great White Egret, 45 Shelduck Port Eynon:3 Purple sand, 1 Jack Snipe flushed from on the top of Sedgers Bank,10 Turnstone, 4 Curlew 40 Kittiwakes, 2 Red T Diver, 5 GBB Gull, 26 Cmn Scoter, 30 Auk spp, 10 Guillemot, 2 Razorbill, 27 Gannet, 5 Shag, 2 Cormorant,15 Ringed Plover, The colour ringed Rock Pipit was still… Read more »
Overton 09:15 – 14:45 (All counts for birds heading west)
1 Leach’s (10:45-11:10), 2 B-t Divers (11:20 + 13:20 landing on sea in front of watchpoint)
86 C Scoter, 80+ Kitts, 300+ Auks, 21 R-t Diver, 2 G N Diver, 5 Fulmar, 6 Manx and 21 Gannet
22nd Nov (late yesterday afternoon) red throated diver close inshore at Pwlldu Bay
At Crofty this morning, there were just 2 juveniles among a flock of 205 Dark-bellied Brents, suggesting it’s been a bad breeding season for this boom and bust species. A big juvenile Peregrine spooked the geese and pretty much everything else, though it wasn’t long before they returned.
Very few juvs here in Kent so far this year.
This afternoon at the Broughton end of Llangennith Burrows a ringtail harrier working the dunes and a few redwing and fielfare.
A buzzard and a reed bunting in a staring contest this afternoon at Salthouse Point, Crofty. Also a red kite made an appearance.
Largest flock (30+) of Fieldfares seen so far this autumn on West Cliff, Southgate this morning
Male blackcap on my Tycoch garden feeder today. I like to think the same bird that wintered here all last winter has returned, but that’s probably fanciful.
Port Eynon: 1 Light bellied Brent Goose with 7 Dark bellied Brent, 1 Red Throated Diver, 40 Ringed Plover, 12 Dunlin, 10 Turnstone, 25 Med gull Horton ( Fields inland) 55 Skylark, 110 Lapwing, 40 Common Gull, 15 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 12 Linnet, 10 Chaffinch Oxwich bay: 1 Red Throated Diver, 6 Cormorant Broad Pool: 32 Greylag geese LLanrhidian: 42 Greylag geese, 1 Green Sand, 180 lapwing, 2 Red Kite, 1 Sparrowhawk, 10 Linnet, 3 Great white egret, 6 little Egret Wernffrwd: 37 Greylag Geese, 55 Shelduck, 40 Dark Bellied Brent, 12 Little egret Daltons Point: 67 Pintail, 34 Wigeon,… Read more »