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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.
3 Common Swift above Clydach this afternoon.(03.05.2025)
Saw my first swift of the year high up over Caswell.
Male Cuckoo trapped and ringed in my garden on Pennard Cliffs this evening. At least one has been present between Pobbles Beach to Pwlldu Bay for the last day.
Copper quarter Swansea. C. 25 house martins back in area since 28 April. Similar number to last year
April 30th. Female wheatear drinking from our birdbath this morning in Bishopston. Cuckoo calling from Clyne Common at 2100hrs.
Sightings at West Cliff, Southgate today included 13 Whimbrel flying eastward up the Channel. Lesser Whitethroat present again along with a Sedge Warbler and very good numbers of Common Whitethroat. Also a male Cuckoo dropped into the garden early this evening.
A walk from Mewslade to Fall Bay this afternoon produced a flock of 13 Chough circling over Mewslade Valley, later moving off north, with another three at Fall Bay. The usual suspects were around Fall Bay but off-shore a 10 min seawatch produced two dp Arctic Skuas up channel, three Manx Shearwaters down channel, a Sandwich Tern heading towards the Worm, a nbp Red throated Diver on the sea, small groups of Guillemot and 12 Gannets.
A single swift over Bishopston, Saturday 27th April, 7pm.
Should read Sunday 27th
Blaengwynfi mountain 27 April: small flock of 9 crossbills, 2 cuckoos, 5 tree pipits, 2 common redstarts, 6 siskin.
Oxwich Marsh: grasshopper warbler reeling.
Birds trapped and ringed / processed included: 9 reed warbler, 2 sedge warbler, 15 siskin, 6 Cetti’s warbler, 2 willow warbler, 2 bullfinch
Linnets seem to be doing well around coast between caswell and mumbles. Lovely sights of singing males
Brecon Beacons Field trip today went very well with 49 species seen or heard. At the first site we found a Male Ring Ousel singing from a crag top other species around included Wheatear, Stonechat and various other common spp. Some nice views of kestrel and Peregrines….. including a stoop on a Lesser Black back Gull which went into a spiral descent – a freefall we lost the end of due to a hill obscuring. At the Osprey site lovely views of the male nest building bringing in branch’s to the nest with the female incubating , these being river… Read more »