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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.
Two Grasshopper Warblers and a Sedge Warbler were at Pant-y-Sais this morning. Two Tree Pipits singing near Banwen Pyrddin and lots of Redstarts present in the area. Then mid-afternoon involved a dash to Rhossili to see two birds found earlier by Judd Hunt, Phil Bristow and Mike Powell – a moulting Red-necked Grebe showing distantly in Rhossil Bay and nearby at Tears Point a Hoopoe was feeding away happily in one of the fields adjacent to the Coastal Path
Two sedge warblers and at least two reed warblers singing at Crymlyn Bog this morning.
One Cuckoo calling on Mynydd Carnllechart.10.04.2025
Counts from the sandbar which remains exposed on the neap high tides in the upper section of the Burry, over the last two evenings (8th/9th), included: Shelduck (10/25), Oystercatcher (1,261/242), Ringed Plover (1/0), Dunlin (0/2), Bar-tailed Godwit (0/9), Black-tailed Godwit (522/463), Knot (58/29), Common Sandpiper (0/1) and Black-headed Gull (358/163). Both species of godwit are so colourful at present.
Black Redstart on clifftop between West Cliff and Pobbles, Southgate this morning.
m + f Blackcap in Middleton garden this morning
Two reed warblers singing at Pant y Sais Fen this morning. Also willow warbler, blackcap, chiffchaff, Cetti’s warbler.
Willow tit and Great Spotted Woodpecker in the woodland above Overland Road Mumbles this afternoon.
Osprey flew low over my garden above Caswell 14.00. Getting mobbed by Seagulls as it headed North West.
My first cuckoo of the year, just north of Ilston
Two swallows over Kittle Egg Farm earlier. First I’ve spotted them there this year.
Two early reed warblers singing at Crymlyn Bog this morning. Also several singing willow warblers and blackcaps, along with many chiffchaffs.