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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.

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Nigel Ramsell
28 December 2024 16:34

On riverside path between RTB bridge and Ffendrod. 2 small flocks of Siskins and Long Tailed Tits feeding on alder. Goldfinches. Bullfinch pair. 2 Redwing.

Owain Gabb
28 December 2024 13:30

Hen harrier (female) hunting the marsh at Oxwich this morning. Put up numerous snipe. Appeared to drop onto prey and disappeared for some time. Mobbed by male sparrowhawk.
Otherwise quiet, with small flocks of siskin and a few bullfinch noted, but none of the chiffchaff or goldcrests seen yesterday. Kingfisher on the channel.
Rob Taylor reported 6 red-throated diver in the bay

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PAUL GRIFFITHS
28 December 2024 00:03

27 Dec Oxwich Point: 2 great northern divers close inshore in the fog, 2 great crested grebes, 52 oystercatchers, 1 curlew, 1 female kestrel, 2 great black backed gulls.

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Jon Parker
27 December 2024 20:37

There was a diver off the cliffs between Caswell and Langland at around 3pm today. I’m fairly certain it was a juvenile Great Northern but it dived every time I got it in my bins and moved gradually further from shore into the fog.

Dewi Lewis
27 December 2024 19:31

We had a noticable influx of Bullfich in our Clydach garden today.Small parties of 4 to 10 birds at a time kept dropping in for a few hours feeding on phesant berry(Leycesteria formosa)

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Owain Gabb
27 December 2024 19:06

Oxwich Marsh: 3 chiffchaff and a flyover brambling (with siskins)
Also a recapture of a snipe just over 6 years after initial ringing

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Brian Pawson
Brian Pawson
27 December 2024 17:13

Great spotted Woodpecker drumming in Clyne Gardens at 13.30 today as well as a song thrush “tuning up”. Also 42 curlew at Blackpill at 4pm

Derek Jones
26 December 2024 11:36

Is this a Glossy Ibis? Either it flew over twice or there were 2 of them, heading from Sunny Bank, Crofty towards Selwyn’s Cockle Factory this very misty morning.

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Owain Gabb
26 December 2024 16:20
Reply to  Derek Jones

Yes it is Derek. Very good record for West Glam. Please submit the record to Eddie Hunter / make sure he has got it. There were no records in 2023, but quite a few in 2022. The first record for the recording area was in 2020. The increase of late reflects the increased range and abundance of the species in the UK.

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Derek Jones
26 December 2024 16:53
Reply to  Owain Gabb

Thanks Owain. Will do.

MWaldron
25 December 2024 16:46

On the quay at south end of Aberavon beach over hide tide 3 Purple Sandpiper were with 6 Turnstone and 3 Rock Pipit. 5 Sanderling feeding on the beach nearby.

Mark Hipkin
25 December 2024 07:47

A Snow Bunting was present at Cefn Bryn, yesterday. The bird has reportedly been present since 22nd Dec and seems to favour the path and adjacent area just before Red Pool which is 150m west of King Arthur’s Stone car park. (SS48779012). The bird has a metal ring on its right leg but the photos I took are not sharp enough to read all the details. Hopefully, it’ll stick around and someone can get better photos showing the ring code.

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Ed Hunter
24 December 2024 01:12

Water pipit at llanrhidian near floods toward cattle grid ( llanrhidian end)

Brian Pawson
Brian Pawson
23 December 2024 15:32

600 oystercatcher at Blackpill at noon today as well as 10 bar tailed godwit, 9 sanderling and 7 redshank. Also, there were around another 400 oystercatcher further west towards West Cross as well as at least 6 curlew.