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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 Port Eynon Point 2:45- 5:30 After hearing about some excellent seabirds seen earlier in the day i headed down after the Whitford walk to try my luck . Within minutes of settling down 1 Sooty Shearwater came past close in heading West and was seen a few minutes later at Overton. Not long later…. a Juv Long tailed Skua appeared in Oxwich bay and off the rocks at Sedgers bank for 3 -4 mins giving excellent views – before flying directly out to sea and appeared to land. Presumably was the bird seen earlier in the day and apparently… Read more »
That Osprey: photo by Bob East.
A great walk to Whiteford today with 25 members enjoying unexpectedly good weather. 43 species found: I don’t know about the heron / harrier, but I do know the highlight was spectacular views of an Osprey. A Peregrine on the way home was a nice bonus. Cormorant Eider Scaup Great Crested Grebe Wood Pigeon Little Egret Herring Gull Black Headed Gull Lesser Black Backed Gannet Sandwich Tern Little Tern Jackdaw Carrion Crow Raven Magpie House Martin Swallow Starling Blackbird House Sparrow Chaffinch Linnet Whitethroat Stonechat Goldcrest Goldfinch Great Tit Blue Tit Meadow Pipit Wheatear Grey Wagtail Pied Wagtail Great Spotted… Read more »
Tawny Owl videod eating chips on 24th August in Blackpill
Castell-du yesterday: Little Stint 1 (2 seen earlier by Lukas), Ringed Plover 3, Little Ringed Plover 2, Lapwing 8, Whimbrel 2, Common Sandpiper 2 & Greenshank 6. No sign of the stints today, but additions included 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Goosander and Wigeon 1
Oxwich Marsh: 2 grasshopper warbler
Ilston: 2 dipper, kingfisher
Oxwich Marsh: marsh harrier, kingfisher (1-2), tree pipit, 6 grey wagtail, 2 grasshopper warbler, 24 sedge warbler, 17 reed warbler, 2 whitethroat, 3 willow warbler, 18 blackcap
Ilston River: kingfisher
Bishopston, Gower: On Tuesday 26th, over field off Pwll-Du Lane, 3 Swifts were feeding with large numbers of Sand and House Martins and Swallows. A Marsh Tit was in woods by the beach, and 2 Choughs and 2 Buzzards overhead.
Oxwich Marsh: green sandpiper this morning
Today at Wernffrwd saw a Ruff with the waders at high tide, also 14 Bar Tailed Gowit and 14 Shelduck differed from yesterday. Also today 300 Owstercatcher but less Curlew with 84. An Osprey had caught a fish and was eating it on a post between llanrhidian and Weobley. Just 1 Great White Egret seen today. 30 M
ed Gulls were at Port Eynon in the pm
Weobley track: curlew sandpiper last night
Oxwich Marsh: grasshopper warbler, tree pipit, and a little pulse of willow warbler passage.
Last night: 400 starling, garden warbler and a flyover yellow wagtail.