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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.
Oxwich: Tristis (eastern race) chiffchaff plus two normal collybita chiffchaffs today.
Very few finches around the marsh. 50+ blue tits at the feeders.
Crofty (Salthouse Point) this afternoon. Good numbers of Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Curlew and Redshank, c250 Dark Bellied Brent Geese, 4 Great White Egrets, c20 Little Egrets and a solitary Greenshank. Out in the estuary and channels were c10 Great Crested Grebe, possibly around 30 Pintail, numerous Shelduck and some widely dispersed Shoveler, Wigeon and Teal. Gulls; Herring, BH, Common and LBB. Passerines included Linnet, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Song Thrush, Reed Bunting, Bullfinch and Chaffinch. A female Marsh Harrier was hunting over Llanrhidian Marsh (before flying north over towards Trostre) whilst a Red Kite and a Buzzard patrolled just inland.
11th Dec. Scoter flock still present in Oxwich Bay, plus 12 great crested grebes. 42 sanderling and 18 ring-necked plover on the beach, and a little egret and great egret fishing side by side in the creek leading to the marsh.
ringed plover, that is! I was reading about parakeets last night.
10TH Dec, 300+ common scoter in bay off Three Cliffs, 6 chough East cliff, Dartford warbler Hunt’s Bay.
3 Common Scoters were south of Loughor Bridge on this morning’s tide.
Dr Miguel Lurgi of Swansea University and Gower Ringing Group talking about his local projects and the reason for ringing in general https://fb.watch/wiIMPX-nUo/
A grey heron made off with what I think was a newt from a pool on Cefn Bryn this afternoon. Also a rook displaying its crooked tongue and a wren.
At Weobley this morning counts included 1247 Golden Plover, 245 Lapwing, 17 D-b Brent and 1200 Starling.
Sorry was meant to be 1427 GP
Belated news of a Smew picked up on Carmarthen Road, Swansea on the 27th, taken to Gower Bird Hospital
A red kite low over giants grave 1 pm today (29th).
Yesterday (27th) there was a Female Marsh Harrier hunting on Llanrhidian Marsh
Rhossili morning of the 27th
1 Peregrine over worm’s head, 1 Great Northern diver close fairly to shore