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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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Alan Seago
17 January 2025 23:41

Whilst doing the Gull Survey today, a Great Northern Diver and Kestrel seen between Rotherslade and Limeslade at dusk.

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Paul Larkin
17 January 2025 09:24

Yesterday afternoon at Broughton Bay

Brent Goose 19 (4 juvs), Wigeon 22, GC Grebe 1, RT Diver 1.

Paul Larkin
15 January 2025 23:40

Oxwich Bay mid afternoon

Sanderling 49, Oystercatcher 42, Ringed Plover 36, GC Grebe 34, including a raft of 13, Common Scoter 256, RT Diver 7, including a raft of five, Guillemot 9, GN Diver 1 flew down channel.

Llanrhidian late afternoon

GW Egret 6 roosting in trees with Little Egrets.

Afon Lliw, Island Bridge, Loughor

Goosander 1 fem, Dipper 1, the usual wintering bird.

Derek Jones
15 January 2025 22:42

A Greenshank, a Sandpiper, a Mallard and a Little Egret in the pill by the car park near GG’s Penclawdd at low tide this afternoon.

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Terry Tovey
15 January 2025 22:13

15th Jan 35 redpoll on trees by the roundabout near neath Abbey going on to the dual carriageway.

Paul Larkin
13 January 2025 22:43

Llandimore this afternoon

Lapwing 951, Golden Plover 941 GW Egret 1

Llanrhidian Marsh late afternoon

Merlin 1 brown bird, GW Egret 2

Ed Hunter
13 January 2025 16:42

Llanrhidian yesterday late pm -2 male Hen Harriers and 1 ringtail, distant Marsh harrier. A imm Goshawk flew in and was mobbed by both male Hens at once then the Gos made a kill in the marsh which it took low toward the village. Big numbers of Lapwing and Golden Plover still present

Dewi Lewis
13 January 2025 12:40

‘female type’ Blackcap has been in the garden(Clydach) over the last few days.Other ‘cold weather’ birds were Goldcrest,Bullfinch and Long Tailed-Tit. A Buzzard dropped in for a few minutes causing panic amongst the House Sparrows-but I think it needed respite from the mobbing of the local Herring Gulls.

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Paul Larkin
12 January 2025 22:51

Llanrhidian Marsh mid afternoon

Golden Plover 848, Lapwing 608, Hen Harrier 1 rt, GW Egret 1

Jeremy Douglas-Jones
12 January 2025 12:40

Three Spoonbills at Dalton Point, Penclawdd today at 12.30.

Jeremy Douglas-Jones
12 January 2025 16:37

There really were three…

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Alan Seago
12 January 2025 09:29

Male blackcap in Langland garden all week. Also thrushes and finches turning up in the cold weather.

Paul Larkin
11 January 2025 22:57

Llannant late afternoon

Golden Plover 150, Lapwing 175 flushed up by a Red Kite