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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.
Whiteford Point 25 April. 4 sandwich terns, 1 gannet, 14 eider duck, 2 great northern divers, 4 great crested grebes, 28 whimbrel, 4 curlew, 24 shelduck, 1000+ oystercatchers, 3 ringed plover, 7 cormorants, 1 cuckoo, lots of whitethroats and chiffchaffs.
Willow warbler, linnet and chiffchaff seen and heard on Fairwood common near Swans training ground
Harding’s Down, Llangennith. Single singing male yellowhammer on the east side of the down above Druid’s Moor, with a second bird near Upper Hardingsdown Farm. The Down has had a lot of gorse burning and cutting, and some parts are heavily grazed, which are all likely to limit bird numbers. However good numbers of linnet, 2 willow warbler singing, at least 3 pairs of stonechat plus small numbers of skylark and meadow pipit.
Main Gnoll pond 14 tufteds,22 mallards, coots moorhens, and pied wagtail.
Fairwood Common 04.20 today – Cuckoo calling at length in pitch dark.
Clyne Common, 22/04/2025:
3pairs of stonechat (one female with nesting material)
2 raven (flying east)
My first swallow of the year, near Clyne Farm this afternoon.
This evening, a short walk along the canal past Pant yr Sais – cuckoo, willow warbler, buzzard, GS woodpecker, goldfinch, blue, great and long tailed tits, song thrush, plus the usuals.
Pant y Sais. 1 cuckoo calling from woods above village then flew over fen towards Towers hotel
Southgate, 20th April 2025:
3 yellow ringed jackdaws
1 singing blackcap
4 displaying male whitethroat; 2 females in proximity of males
1 pair stinechat
2 shelduck
Several small flocks of Whimbrel at Salthouse Point, Crofty this afternoon. I counted 54 in one of them.
Clyne Common (west), 21st April 2025:
9 singing willow warbler
3 singing chiffchaff
1 singing blackcap
2 singing skylark
7 Meadow pipit (5 displaying)
1 reed bunting (female)
2 pair stonechat
1 cuckoo (male calling)
1 raven (flying east)
1 red kite
2 common snipe
Male Cuckoos calling from three distinct areas of Fairwood Common this morning plus this Grasshopper Warbler reeling away on the road northwards from Ilston.