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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.
Weobley saltings: large flocks of lapwing 800+ and golden plover 500+, 2 great white egrets, 2 red kites, 3 greenshank at Staffal Haegr with 2 shovelers. Greenfinch singing in Llanrhidian church yard.
GOS bird walk this morning at Kidwelly in good weather: over 40 species recorded including Firecrest and Many Chiffchaffs and a very early Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly. The kingfisher posed very well to let us all get great views. Common Chiff Chaff Eastern Race Chiff Chaff Fire Crest Gold Crest Carrion Crow Collared Dove Little Egret Green Finch Gold Finch Chaff Finch Black Tailed Godwit Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Herring Gull Black Headed Gull Common Gull Lesser Black Backed Gull Greater Black Backed Gull Red Kite Wood Pigeon Golden Plover House Sparrow Song Thrush Blue Tit Great Tit Long Tailed… Read more »
I was at Loughor yatch club this evening when a flock of 10-ish Russian Whitefronts flew across the estuary (GOS side coming from Llannant) and joined Greylags feeding on Bynea saltmarsh.
2.00pm today: our resident carrion crows courting. Fleeting but unmistakable behaviour.
Only slightly bird related I’m afraid. Does anyone know what the parking arrangements at Oxwich are? There are now signs up in the car park, posted by Eternity Parking, saying you have to pay at the kiosk and if you aren’t able to (I assume implying if it isn’t manned) you must vacate the car park immediately or you will receive £100 fine. Does anyone know if my assumption is correct?
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Llansamlet late afternoon,large flock of jackdaws in trees in home bargains car park est count 800+ with birds still arriving at 5 30.
25 sanderling at high tide at Blackpill this morning, but only 3 oystercatcher……Earlier on there were also 39 curlew, 20 oystercatcher, 10 common gulls and 35 black-headed gulls on the Ashleigh Road playing fields.
Castell Du today on the falling tide
Lapwing 164, Curlew 4, Teal 61, Greenshank 1, Common Sandpiper 1, Dunlin 4, Redshank 5, Oystercatcher 2, Gadwall 2, Shelduck 14, Wigeon 34, Little Grebe 2, Little Egret 1, Merlin a rather bedraggled male sitting on its favourite tree stump.
2 Red Kites sighted over West Cross today at 12.30pm
14/2 40+ carrion crows in trees near Tesco neath Abbey
40+carrion crows in trees near Tesco neath Abbey at dusk
Yes, on. Wednesday and tonight there is a huge wonderful “murder of crows”around Neath . All fly up in the evening to have a chat the rest on top of the Neath police station and surrounding roof tops 👍
Hi Roy the big flocks around neath at dusk are jackdaws they are quite a sight ,there is also a large flock in. The Briton ferry docks area sometimes containing 800+ birds.