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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.
Forgot to post yesterday – saw 37 Redwings, 6 Mistle thrushes. 2 Song thrushes and 10 Blackbirds on my local walk in Crynant but no Fieldfares. They were feeding in fields and there seems to be a lack of berries about. Different walk today and saw 2 pairs of Bullfinches together in a group, 4 Long tailed tits, Buzzard, and numerous Great tits and Jays.
Penclawdd Marsh 7th: 6 lapwing/ 4 mute swan/ 50 canada goose
Beautiful morning, bay like a millpond.52 Great Crested Grebes off Blackpill. 1 Red Kite over Ashley Road playing fields.
Baglan Industrial Estate- 12 Snipe,a Water Rail & a small flock of 6 Siskins. At Mansel Weir, river Afan,a Common Sandpiper,a few Mallard & Moorhen. 3 Common Sandpipers reported from the weir to the estuary yesterday by Dave Cornish and later Phil Routliff. A large flock of Collared Doves at Talbot Memorial Park (since last august). 41+ there yesterday.
Clydach/Glais circular walk. Grey Wagtail(1),Goldcrest(1),Bullfinch(3),Red Kite(2), Kestrel(1 female),Kingfisher(1 female),Goosander (2 males on the Tawe),Mistle Thrush(2),Song Thrush(3),Chaffinch(2) Great Tit(2),Long Tail Tit(11)
12 midday at Blackpill: One Grey Plover hopping about on one leg! with a small group of Ringed Plover
Whooper Swan photos from Lukas Le Grice
Whiteford Point 10:00: 2 female scaup, 200 brant, and 2 whooper swan from the hide (see photos). Also a jack snipe in the marshland.
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Two common dolphins washed up dead on the beach at West Cross this morning.
Reported to the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (0800 652 0333)
See image below.
Per Tom Richardson
Clydach/Glais circular walk.Goldcrest(1),Blackbird(11),Robin(15),Dunnock(9), Great Tit(2),Dipper(1),Buzzard(2),Red Kite(1).Jay(2),Moorhen(5 on canal),Mallard(4 on canal).Field close to Glais rugby pitch had a decent flock of Redwing(35),Song Thrush(3),Mistle Thrush(5) and Starling(66).
Dalton’s Point: These 4 ducks. The three on the right are pintail, the one on the left appears to have a similar sleeping profile to a ring-necked duck seen here yesterday. When zoomed in, other features also indicate a RND such as light underparts and a slightly darker patch on the breast. Still very possible it’s a female pintail. The photo is no longer clear after being copied and pasted a few times to get to here.
Penclawdd Marsh – Right Now: 41 canada goose/ 178 greylag goose/ 4 mute swan
Also 31 golden plover and a hen harrier
There was a ring-necked duck reported from Dalton’s Point yesterday Lukas
Hi Owain
Yes I heard, I am heading over there this afternoon….
Lukas
Clyne Common. 2 woodcock and a common snipe close to the track between Whitestone School and Fairwood Road pre-dawn.
Very icy here this morning so haven’t been out yet. A pair of Bullfinches on the garden feeders and yesterday’s Grey wagtail returned – it’s been eating mixed seed on the ground.
Pwll Du this morning: a great northern diver actively foraging and a razorbill just off the head.
Brandy Cove: treecreeper and bullfinch singing.
This mornings walk 2/1/2021 in the sleet rain etc up the Clydach canal pair of Kingfishers.
New Year day morning up Mynydd Gelliwastad 10+ Redwings, 1 Raven, 1Goldcrest, 1Bullfinchand 1 Redkite.
Penclawdd Marsh 2nd January: 2 raven/ 2 mute swan/ 116 greylag goose/
Beautiful New Year’s Day walk in Lliw valley. V. cold and very sunny. Nuthatch (3), dunnock (pair), gold crest, red kite (2), buzzard, raven.
Bullfinch, greater spotted woodpecker, nuthatch, jay, treecreeper alongside blue, great and coal tits at Oystermouth Cemetery this afternoon
Dalton’s Point 1st January: 1 great-crested grebe/ 100 black-tailed godwit/ 11 grey plover/ 1 shoveler/ 4 gadwall
Long circular walk through Bishop’s Wood to Caswell and round to Limeslade.
Bishops Wood: marsh tit (near the Round House), treecreeper.
Cliffs: shag (5), stonechats, Med gull at Langland, grey seal. No Dartfords showing – would have been a nice way to start the year.
08.30 in my garden at Manselfield; female Green Woodpecker.
Happy New Year!
Woodpecker drumming in Oystermouth cemetery now.