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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.
Penclawdd this afternoon.
Spoonbil 2 adults, Greenshank 1 all feeding in the channel off the car park
18th aberavon beach 42 sanderlings,and a pair of stonechats in the dunes
2 Sand Martins at Swansea Vale this evening. Historically, my first sightings at this location have been earlier than this but great to see them back.
Lower Lliw and Upper Lliw reservoir highlights today. Great Crested Grebe, Cormorant, Goosander m+f, Raven, Red Kite, Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Skylark, Jackdaw 50+, Green Woodpecker, Goldcrest
Mewslade 17/3. Kestrel, 2 Buzzard and Yellowhammer.
No Fulmars at regular cliff site
Nice to spot a Woodcock farm fields behind Plough & Harrow in Llangyfelach 16/03/25 6pm
GOS birders at Kenfig today.
Neath A465 Roundabout adjacent area: 1 Water Pipit – Going into sum Plum, 1 Scandinavian Rock pipit – again showing some slight sum plumage helping I.D. Another unidentified pipit looked rather interesting ( pic attached.) but all dispersed once tide dropped. 9 Med Pipits also present. 1 Cettis in song and a Little grebe. 3 Curlew and 3 Mute swan Goosanders – 3 pairs found 1 at Glynneath, another south of Cwmgrach and at Tonna. 2 G C Grebes still on Rheola lakes. 2 Pair of Little Grebes trilling at Rheola pond with up to 9 Cormorants roosting. All yesterday.… Read more »
A very successful walk at Kenfig Nature Reserve down to Sker Point. 55 species found by 25 walkers.
Carrion Crow Bullfinch Chaffinch Goldfinch Canada Goose Greylag Goose Herring Gull Lesser Black Backed Gull Meadow Pipit Golden Plover Ringed Plover House Sparrow Blue Tit Long Tailed Tit Cetttis Warbler American Widgeon European Widgeon Blackbird Buzzard Chiff Chaff Collared Dove Coot Cormorant Curlew Dunlin Dunnock Gadwell Goldeneye Great Crested Grebe Jackdaw Kestrel Lapwing Magpie Moorhen Mute Swan Peregrine Pied Wagtail Pochard Purple Sandpiper Raven Reed Bunting Robin Sanderling Shoveller Skylark Sparrow Hawk Starling Stonechat Tufted Duck Turnstone Wheatear Wood Pigeon Wren
A Shot of the1st year American Wigeon looking more dapper these days from when turned up
I’ve had a wintering female blackcap visiting my Tycoch garden feeder regularly throughout the winter. I think she has now departed (last seen 13/03/25). Last winter I had a male blackcap visiting pretty much daily, which stayed until 28th March. I don’t know if wintering female blackcaps might leave a bit earlier for their central European breeding grounds than males? Or perhaps migration is underway earlier this year? It does seem that chiffchaffs and wheatears etc are arriving back a bit earlier than usual this year. I’ve heard a few recent reports of singing blackcaps, which I guess could be… Read more »
Afon Lliw at Pont y cob this afternoon.
Dipper 1 the usual wintering bird
Llanrhidian.
Blackcap 1 in song, GW Egret 2
Wernffrwd.
Golden Plover 270
South of Loughor bridge on the run up this evening
GC Grebe 10, Goldeneye 1 fem, Little Egret 28, Pintail 2, a pair, Wigeon 8
Farmland around Horton / Berry. Yellowhammer in four locations between Hangman’s Cross and Berry. Included singing bird. Rooks actively nest building at Scurlage Farm and a barn owl pellet in a disused building. Also reed bunting, lots of chaffinches and house sparrow, and a small flock of greylags (10) in the area