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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.
At Knab Rock no sign of the diver but cormorants were catching dabs so big they had difficulty swallowing them. At Bracelet at noon 21 Med Gulls and a low flying Peregrine which put up a couple of small waders on the light house island but failed to catch one before flying on round to Oystermouth.
No sign of the GND in Mumbles this morning.. only the 2 cormorants that were feeding there yesterday also .
It’s a very calm Sea so no need to be sheltering in the Lee of the pier
Great Northern Diver feeding off Knab Rock in Mumbles
13:15.. just flown off into Swansea Bay
Tutt Head. Seawatch 05:15-06:15
Common scoter (16 west), Med gull (2 cy), Manx shearwater (40 east), auk spp (4 east)
At Bracelet at 6.30pm today in sunshine and SW gale: a gannet, close inshore.
Tutt Head (05:15-06:30).
Common scoter (11 west), Manx shearwater (35 – mainly east), gannet (9), fulmar (1), auk spp (11 – including some confirmed guillemots and razorbills)
A feeding flock of 70+ House Martins low over Craig yr Aber this afternoon.
We saw a red kite above our house in Pennard today and two days ago. We’ve previously seen one in Three Crosses and towards Gowerton over the last few years, but this is the first time we’ve seen one in Pennard.
Hi Andy just posted we saw one (it?) yesterday on the cliffs at Hunts Bay – second time we’ve seen it! Ros&Chris
Tutt Head (Bracelet / Limeslade). Seawatch 05:15-06:15 with (an appropriately socially distanced) Miguel Lurgi.
Fulmar (15), Manx shearwater (21), guillemot (5 on sea), razorbill (2 on sea), cormorant (3), gannet (15+), 5 auk species.
Rock pipit and linnet present.
Pretty quiet. Most fulmars (13) moving west. Almost everything else east.
7 adults, and 1 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls in Bracelet Bay this evening.
Small party of crossbills in the pines at Langland Corner
Siskins and crossbills overhead first thing this morning (Langland).
Numbers not remarkable, but reflective of movements being recorded at visible migration watch points at present.
Seems to be a good year for scarlet tiger moth. Please do report sightings to South East Wales Biological Records Centre.