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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.
A common sandpiper off the Tivoli, Mumbles this morning
Fenrod lake
92 Canada geese 17 mute swan lots of mallards with juvs 2 great crested grebes one looked like a juv.
A few black h gulls herring gulls and lesser b b gulls usual moorhens and coots .
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Gannet and Med Gill at Whiteshell Point this morning at 0730.
Little egret fishing along the shoreline opposite Oystermouth Square
Good to read DC’s report of Croeserw and Cwm nant y Fedw. I was absent from the garden (and talking to Derek Thomas) this afternoon, when Christine had a drama in the garden. As she describes it, her attention was drawn to a disturbance. Then she saw a sparrowhawk chasing a passerine from the sunflower hearts feeder and round & about the back garden before both disappeared over a hedge and away. I suspect the sprawks are not breeding between us and Langland Bay this year, as their appearances here are fewer.
A visit to Croeserw and Cwm nant y Fedw in the upper Afan Valley today where I met up with Gwyn Randall and Phil Routliff. On the edge of Croeserw late breeding records of Robin, blackbird, Pied Wagtail, Dunnock and a family party of Blackcaps, The star bird here was a male Pied Flycatcher although the plumage looked a bit worn and faded. The first I have seen in NPT for a few years. The woodland at the lower part of Nant y Fedw yielded Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jays, Woodpigeon with a family of Grey Wagtails on the… Read more »
Plenty of evidence of breeding successes in the garden today. Here is a young chiffchaff.
Red Kite over Cheriton today.
0730 today: I counted 13 Gannets flying near the Mixen Bell and above a good-sized pod of Porpoise, some of which were jumping clear out of the water.
40+ Linnets a Rhossili Vile today.
Red kite solo flying over Hunts Bay Pennard Cliffs yesterday July 09 about 5pm. This is the second time we’ve seen one there, v exciting.