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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 Cettiās warbler.
Male Blackcap in Gorseinon garden just now
Cwm Clydach. Dipper pair near new footbridge.
Kingfisher on Swansea canal Clydach nr lock renovation
A Marsh Harrier showed up at high tide off Dalton’s Point this afternoon.
Three Buzzards wheeling over the Caswell end of Langland GC
Black redstart still showing really well at Limeslade beach this morning
Blackpill: in amongst large flock of Oystercatchers, 19 Bar Tailed Godwit, 30 Sanderling, 1 Knot. Swansea side of the stream, 15 Turnstone
2 Gannets between Limeslade and Rotherslade.
Black Redstart still on beach at Limeslade
A cold and blustery day at Rhosilli today yielded a male Kestrel, a male Hen Harrier, 2 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing and 2 Chough among the usual flocks of Goldfinch and Linnet and numerous Jackdaw, Herring Gull and Black Headed Gulls. Small flock (9) of Common Scoter offshore together with a Fulmar and a Great Crested Grebe, the latter on the Fall Bay side.
Black Redstart on beach at Limeslade
Oops- that should have been 42 curlew at Ashleigh Road this morning…..
108 oystercatcher, 2 curlew, 1 bar tailed godwit, 35 herring gull, 15 black headed gull and a grey wagtail on Ashleigh Road playing fields at high tide earlier today. Also 5 Canada geese on the grass below the hockey pitches.
150 Common Scoter and 1 Velvet Scoter off Broughton Burrows, also 2 Razorbill, 1 Red-throated Diver, Kestrel and 2 Chough off Burry Holms.
Velvet Scoter with much smaller Common Scoter