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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.
Dipper on Cwm Stream at the back of Ashleigh Road playing fields earlier this morning. Also 12 curlew, 17 oystercatcher, 2 mistle thrush and 3 common gulls.
A couple more shots of the Parakeets in Morriston Park. I counted at least 10. Nice to speak to Jeremy whilst viewing them.
The Ring Necked Parakeet can easily be found, firstly by their noisy call, at the Park Lodge Road entrance. I found three very quickly on Sunday
Sunny walk around Craig-Y-Nos this morining. Can anyone identify this duck (right)? Ruddy maybe? Annoyingly, it was having a good sleep so I didn’t get a better view. There were otherwise a few mallard and little grebe in the water.
Mallard drake.The duck is on the left.
Ha!🤦🏼♀️ The colours looked different, must have been the way the light was catching it! That’s my excuse 😆
Oxwich Marsh: jack snipe, 20+ common snipe, chiffchaff, red kite over
Out on Whiteford point today : 3 Light Bellied Brents ( 2 ads) and a Barnacle Goose were lovely to see mixed in with the Dark Bellied Brent Geese, 4 Great Northern Diver, 260 Wigeon, 7 Grey Plover, 70 Ringed Plover, 120 Turnstone , 450 Dunlin, 29 Eider, 12 Redwing, 3 Water Rail. Good numbers of Pintail , Teal and Shelduck. Also several Siskin and a Lesser Redpoll feeding with a flock of Goldfinch. 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker and a green. At LLanrhidian The Pallid Harrier showed very well, also 2 Marsh and 2 Hen harrier – inc a male… Read more »
Raven being mobbed by crows this morning in Uplands
Red Kite flying over Fforestfach Cross yesterday lunchtime (26 Nov).
Est 120 jackdaws over Morrison’s in neath this afternoon,a few carrion crows with them.
just had my copy of gower birds well done to all concerned
with the production of an excellent report.
For anyone planning to go to the Gower Society talk on bird ringing tomorrow evening, please note that the start time is 19:00 (it has been variously advertised with differing start times)
Green woodpecker spotted in an apple tree in the garden in West Cross Lane
37 curlew, 38 oystercatcher and 4 common gulls on Ashleigh Road playing fields this morning. Also another 9 curlew, c.790 oystercatcher, 5 grey plover, 1 knot, 1 redshank and 6 teal at Blackpill.