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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.
Ring-Necked Parakeet flying low southwards over my garden on Pennard Cliffs just now. First record for the garden.
A bit late news I know but 10 Whimbrel on the cliff top between Rhossili & Mewslade last Wednesday before flying north. Also Dipper giving two chicks swimming lessons by the waterfall at Penllagare Woods as well as singing Wood Warbler, Tuesday 6th. Apologies for late notice but only just joined the group!
First screaming Swifts over Manselton, group of 5. Same time as last year
Recently fledged juvenile dipper, on the river Dulais at Treforgan Crynant today.
Lliw Valley absolutely alive with birdsong this afternoon. Lesser redpoll seen between the two reservoirs. Cuckoo heard at both ends of the upper reservoir. Also willow warbler, chiffchaff, pied wagtail present. Dipper seen in the stream running along the path.
Up beyond the reservoir at the wind turbines- meadow pipit and a hovering skylark.
Incest: at 1730 I was called out of the kitchen by a frantic and unfamiliar noise: just outside the back door our adult male was mounting his one-year-old offspring.
I trust it’s some sort of bird you’re referring to Peter 😉
Nicholaston Wood this afternoon: cuckoo – my third location for this species in the peninsula starting 17 April. Also G S woodpecker, chiffchaff, blackcap, and at the sluice gate mute swan and reed warbler.
6th May, 1500hrs; large flock of whimbrel on sandy shoreline east of lighthouse, counted 160 before they were disturbed, probably near 200 altogether.
Not been birding much, but a few sightings from the Loughor over the last week have included, at Castell-du; Canada Goose 43, Goosander 5, Peregrine 1, Common Sandpiper 1, Ringed Plover 4, Little Ringed Plover 3, Dunlin 7, Whimbrel 1, Sand Martin ~50, Pied Wagtail 24 (all non-breeding birds), and at Grove Farm; a Cattle Egret, plus the usual breeding birds such as Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting, Stonechat and Canada Goose!
Yesterday at Oxwich: a cream crown marsh harrier drifted gradually west mid-morning. 2 male cuckoo. First juvenile siskin of the year captured. Grasshopper warbler.
3 Common Swift above Clydach this afternoon.(03.05.2025)
Saw my first swift of the year high up over Caswell.