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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.
A Great Crested Grebe off Salthouse Point, Crofty at high tide this morning.
08.00 Peregrine Falcon and Tiercel on north aspect of Telecom tower Swansea.
10.00 Female sparrowhawk causing panic amongst the goldfinches in garden in Manselfield!
High tide at Penclawdd Marsh this morning. Kingfisher, sparrowhawk, and tons of wigeon, teal, pintail, shelduck, and a shoveler all seen. Also about 100 dunlin, curlew, oystercatcher, and redshank.
Penclawdd Pill 1 Greenshank1 Common Sandpiper
Yesterday afternoon and again today at about 1445: a male sparrowhawk in the garden.
Knab Rock Mumbles:
3 Great Northern Divers (family party??) and a Great Crested Grebe…
Plenty of herring gulls around the pier
Still there this morning.
Great northern diver off Oxwich Point at low tide today. Expect it will be in front of the Oxwich Bay Hotel when the tide rises.
Nothing of note on the sea off Knab Rock or around the pier this morning.
Snow Bunting at Salthouse Point, Crofty, yesterday 13/11/ about 1300.
November 11th 08.00-08.30
Peregrine tiercel seen on northwestern aspect of Telecom tower, Swansea. Flew off in a northerly direction.
Male Blackcap in the garden here in West Cross this lunchtime.
Juvenile hen harrier hunting reed beds in front of Oxwich Hide 1500 Nov 13. Kingfisher and a dozen snipe in flight, circling in
front of hide in a tight flock after raucous chorusing from reed beds.
Penllergare Valley Woods: nice to see a family party of Chaffinches together with two Siskins. Also the usual Nuthatches, GS Woodpecker. On the upper lake a family of Gadwall and 10 Moorhen.
115 brent geese and 4 shelduck off Salthouse Point, Crofty this morning.
Green sandpiper, flying rapidly at cliff-top height, west Pennard cliffs towards Three Cliffs Bay 1300 Nov11th.
Two male Blackcaps feeding on apple’s in my apple tree, Waunarlywdd.
Firecrest (male). Southward Lane, Langland
And here it is ….
Red Kite over Kilfield Road and Broadmead Crescent Murton earlier this afternoon.
35 ringed plover east side of river, Nicholaston burrows, c 200 scoter out at sea 1400hrs 7 Nov.
At least two Mediterranean Gulls in among the Black Headed Gulls at Bracelet Bay yesterday.
Salthouse Point , Crofty sat am , linnet 35, greenfinch 9, reed bunting 6, goldfinch 26, blackbird 8 , song thrush and gold crest 2 , rock pipit 3 .
Castell Du sat am, dunlin 26, lapwing 58 , wigeon 175, black headed gull 145, common gull 18,
Cwm Ivy Sun am 1 male firecrest
Ringtail hen harrier on Fairwood Common close to Upper Killay
Kestrel in same area.
Not a lot on the sea off Mumbles Pier and Knab Rock, but two brent geese out of the bay towards the lighthouse
A Snipe on Clyne Common yesterday afternoon, and a Heron feeding at the golf course ponds. Flock of Long Tailed Tits also visited our garden in Bishopston yesterday morning.
Stiff easterly wind at Southend this morning: Great Crested Grebe close in.
Here’s yesterday’s YBW from Mumbles Cricket Club entrance. From my guides it does appear the pale bill base makes it YBW, so why wait for a Hume’s to call, beyond me so can’t be the whole story? Also one of the Black Redstarts from Bracelet Bay.