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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.
Upper Loughor area . 4 Pink-footed Geese were with several Canada geese flying up river this morning . they landed by Llanant before later flying upriver . ringtail Hen Harrier at Castell Ddu
A pair of dippers on the Clyne River “loop* at noon today – not far from the cycle track.
up at Castell Du on the dropping tide this morning a sub adult drake Baikal teal was drifting around with the Wigeon . it drifted off down river , but came back up into view . a real smart bird and very exciting to find
Penllergaer Valley – upper Lake – Canada Geese, little grebe and a pair of pochard.
Dalton’s Point (12:30) – The Spotted Redshank was showing nicely in the creek from the lay-by swimming and also feeding alongside a Greenshank. Also an immature Marsh Harrier from the same spot with usual suspects dotted around – Shelduck, Pintail, Teal, Wigeon, Curlew, Redshank and Dunlin. Across the channel on mudbank below Llanelli WWT 3 sleeping Spoonbill could be seen. Wernffrwd (13:30) – The Pink-footed Goose was again with approx 70 Greylag Geese. 7 Great White Egrets on view from here and 2 Peregrines Llanrhidian (14:00) – The sub-ad female Pallid Harrier showed briefly before flying low towards Whiteford. Good… Read more »
Happy new year 🙂 nice start to mumbles morning – down by castle firecrest very actively flitting through garden bushes showing lovely views – with distant drumming woodpecker
Berges Hide today at High Tide
Eider 30+,Teal,Shelduck, Pintail 50+,Brent 100+,Curlew 50+, Redshank 30+,
Black T Gotwit,Cormorant, Great Northern diver,Slavonian Grebe?
Blackpill as high tide approached earlier this afternoon – c.650 oystercatcher, 35 sanderling, 27 ringed plover, 4 curlew and 2 redshank.
On Sunday morning watched a female Merlin flying low over the heath by Fairwood airport for a few hundred yards.
130+ Lapwings in the fields on eastern side of Vennaway Lane, Kittle, midday today.
Red Kite over West Cross 13.25 today.
Cetti’s Warbler initially heard and subsequently observed in the marshland towards Morfa Beach.