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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.
Blackpill very disturbed this evening. 11 Sandwich Tern plus a family party? of 5. 26 Ringed Plover and 19 Dunlin, no sign of any Sanderling yet. 2 Great-crested Grebes.
At Port Eynon this pm 56 Med gulls included 6 Juvs and a white ringed Adult (3VOP), 17 Sandwich terns including a pink ringed (KO8 – but was hard to read for sure), 9 GBB Gulls held a 3CY pink ringed bird (P:03D). Also 14 Turnstone including some stunning full summer plumage birds,13 Ringed Plover.3 Rock pipits had no colour rings. 8 Gannet and a Fulmar was all that was moving offshore. At Daltons point a Yellow legged Gull (adult) was with 1 GBB, Herring and Lesser BB Gulls and 2 G C Grebe. Glynneath : A Hobby was over… Read more »
Blackpill this evening Sandwich Terns milling about, best I could count on the ground was 33.
Oxwich Marsh: tree pipit (1) over, 3 grasshopper warbler. Good numbers of sedge warbler present.
Oxwich Marsh 06/08: 30 sedge warbler, 9 reed warbler, grasshopper warbler, garden warbler, 5 willow warbler, kingfisher trapped and ringed.
Cae Tan plot and adjacent farmland at Furzehill, Lunnon. Day total of 28 species included tree pipit, 20+ linnet, 10+ goldfinch, 5+ willow warbler, 10+ chiffchaff, marsh tit, red kite, green woodpecker, house sparrow, kestrel, swift.
Also wasp spider.
The Black-tailed Godwit flock was up to 693 this evening, feeding on the mudflats between Berthlwyd and Morfa Bacas. Other waders inlcuded a fine summer plumaged Knot, a few Whimbrel, 32 Curlew and 434 Oystercather. Non-wader interest was limited to a couple of Sandwich Terns, lots of gulls and a complete lack of Shelduck! Have they all gone to Bridgewater, or just somewhere else in the Burry? There were more than 100 a few weeks ago.
Female Kestrel hovering then stooping in front of the NT shop at Rhossili today at 14.30. Good to see it back on its territory.
Female hen harrier on the marsh near Penclawdd. No photos, I was just driving past this morning
Just wondering if you saw the rump David, only that’s exceptionally early for Hen Harrier? Marsh Harriers have been present on and off all summer.
Four Sandwich Terns off Knabb Rock 07.23 today.
Port Eynon 1.5 hrs this afternoon after the rain had passed. The wind had moved to just N of W, so off shore and no big numbers logged.
All birds moving down channel
Common Tern 3, Common Scoter 1 drake, Manx Shearwater 11, Gannet 26, Balearic Shearwater 1, close in shore past the point.
On the rocks – Sandwich Tern 73, Med Gull 184 including many juvs, Dunlin 1, Ringed Plover 5, Turnstone 5, Sanderling 25, flock flushed off the rocks by holidaymakers.
Osprey fishing the Burry from Salthouse Point this pm but the bird of the day was a Spitfire doing acrobatics over the river.
Oxwich Marsh: 41 reed warbler, 34 sedge warbler, 2 grasshopper warbler, 5 whitethroat, 21 willow warbler, 15 siskin, kingfisher, 5 chiffchaff, garden warbler, treecreeper and 37 blue tits among 221 birds captured and ringed / processed this morning.