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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 Cettiā€™s warbler.

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Russell Evans
30 January 2025 17:21

20 plus fieldfare along with redwing and mistle thrush at Dunvant Ruby Club this afternoon, 30th, 15.00 hrs.

Derek Jones
30 January 2025 17:13

One of two choughs seen from the Mewslade to Rhossili path this morning.

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Barry Stewart
27 January 2025 16:02

Sightings at Llangennith Burrows on Saturday included 3 Chough, plus a flock of 7 Sanderling and 26 Ringed Plovers on the beach. At Llangennith Moors a Kingfisher put in a showing, but best was a fine adult male Marsh Harrier, that flushed 14 Snipe. At Wernffrwd there were 395 Dark-bellied Brent.

Jeremy Douglas-Jones
25 January 2025 17:28

A great turnout for today’s GOS Neath PT: 32 of us walked along the beach to the estuary and recorded 19 species at high tide: Carion Crow Little Egret Bar Tailed Godwit Black Headed Gull Great Black Backed Gull Common Gull Herring Gull Meadow Pipit Rock Pipit Pied Wagtail Stonechat Cormorant Oystercatcher Dunlin Sanderling Redshank Turnstone Kestrel Curlew . Thanks again to Ed hunter for leading. We will visit the area again next month when Owain Gabb will lead the group.

Derek Jones
25 January 2025 16:07

24 Barnacle Geese flew over Cefn Bryn this morninig in the direction of Loughor Estuary. More than 100 Lapwing (along with many Starlings) over Llanrhidian Marsh.

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Ed Hunter
25 January 2025 21:57
Reply to  Derek Jones

Brill you saw these, they were seen over sker point not long before and surely a consequence of the winds of yesterday.

Derek Jones
26 January 2025 00:00
Reply to  Ed Hunter

Thanks Ed. Good to get an idea where they were coming from.

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Brigid Miles
25 January 2025 12:29

Remarkably like a Sharp shinned hawk arrived in Mumbles garden, disappeared before I could take a picture

Alan Seago
24 January 2025 22:43

Along the shore between Mumbles and West Cross at 3.30 pm today – 1 pale-bellied Brent Goose, 4 Curlew, 200 Oystercatcher. 16 Redshank, 85 Herring Gulls, 100 Black-headed Gulls and 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls.

Owain Gabb
24 January 2025 16:16

Southward Lane, Langland: firecrest briefly in the garden at 16:15. A couple of goldcrest too.

Alan Seago
23 January 2025 18:09

Green Woodpecker on Langland Golf Course this afternoon at 4.00pm

Dewi Lewis
23 January 2025 14:48

This smart Buzzard landed on the lawn(Clydach) during a sharp shower this morning.This is the second garden record in ten days. Possibly an indication of the lack of food locally.This one came down to feed on small bits of raw chicken.

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Alan Seago
22 January 2025 19:54

Highlights of a walk across Langland Golf Course this afternoon were a Chough, Firecrest and Greenfinch

Ed Hunter
21 January 2025 19:23

Oxwich Bay late afternoon held a Black Necked Grebe and a Slav Grebe with 45 G C Grebe. Both were initially not to to far out but when they started feeding the Slav was last seen much further across the bay but still quite close in. First time I have seen SG or BNG at this location a very nice surprise! Off Slade 9 Red T Diver, 2 Guillemot, 1 Gannet, 1 Whimbrel ( 2 had been seen and photographed at Oxwich point last week), 4 Curlew Rhosslil Bay 35 Dark Bellied Brents flew over the crabbart, 80 Common Scoter.… Read more »