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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.
Fenrod lake
A ring necked parakeet in the small woodland between the car park and the bridge on the lake 98 Canada geese, 12 mute swan, 4 tufted duck, 2 pochard, 15+ mallard, 10 black headed gulls, one great b b gull,a bar headed goose the usual coots and moorhens, singing robins,and song thrushes,a few linnets and blue tits and a great spotted woodpecker.
12 January. 15 Long-tailed Tits feeding in a tree on the central reservation outside the leisure centre in Swansea.
Female sparrowhawk on a garden light near bird feeders at lunchtime today 11 January. Our woodpigeons did not make the mistake of flying in.
10/1 Whiteford. Great northern diver, slavonian grebe, long-tailed duck, merlin.
Peregrine flying over the cliffs between Southgate and Three Cliffs 3.00pm Friday 10th January
10th January. Male Grey Wagtail on the stream at Ilston, and a Red Kite over Llanrhidian Marsh.
Cheriton and the northern half of Stembridge Valley. GSW drumming, green woodpecker heard, nuthatch, jays; a (prob male) sparrowhawk circling.
8th Jan Margam Park. Highlights were 14+ Stock Doves over Heronry Wood with c30 Siskins nearby. Wildfowl included 68 Canada Geese,53 Mallard,3 Little Grebes & the usual drake Mandarin. Rob Jones & Phil Routliff also present.
06/01
Report of a ring-necked parakeet flying east over Lion Way, Swansea Enterprise Park, towards Tesco (Russell Evans)
Little gull still at swansea barrage today at 3pm.
Gwyn Randall. 05/01/20 A low tide count of Margam Sands revealed 777 Sanderling, 83 Oystercatchers, 72 Ringed Plovers & 2 Dunlin. Gull numbers – c300 Black-headed, 278+ Herring, 87 Common 8 Great black backed & 4 Lesser black backed. Two Rock Pipits also present. Phil Routliff & Rob Jones were part of this co-ordinated count. Over the past few years Margam Sands seems to have become a favoured site for sanderlings with some impressive totals being recorded.
05/01.
Whiteford: jack snipe, scaup (5), slavonian grebe, great northern diver, long-tailed duck and peregrine.
Llanrhidian: great white egret, ringtail hen harrier and merlin (per Glam Bird Club)
04/01.
– Long-tailed duck, 2 red-throated diver, purple sandpiper at Rhossili (per RHAT)
– 66 brent geese, 700 dunlin, 15 curlew, 35 shelduck and a variety of other wildfowl and waders at Salthouse Point, Crofty (per HFC).
– 71 birds captured at Pwll Du by Gower Ringing Group, including marsh tit, 6 bullfinch, 9 robins and 5 house sparrows.
Ad wp Little Gull with Bheads below the swansea barrage mid day saturday 4th jan
Gnoll 2nd Pond Neath
Female red crested Pochard being reported on Twitter.
Great northern diver actively foraging off Mumbles Pier 13:15. Then flew west towards Bracelet.
22 dunlin on old lifeboat slip
Gnoll Pond Neath
Male garganey still there at 3 pm very confiding coming close to people feeding ducks
Great Grey Shrike Afan forest found by Darren Coombes on twitter.. @stegbirder
A slavonian grebe, a group of 8 red-breasted mergansers and numerous brent geese, duck (shoveler, pintail, wigeon), waders (inc. curlew, grey plover, knot) off Wernffrwd mound this morning at high tide. Two great white egret foraging close by.
Found the Goldfinch roost I remarked about on 27th December. It consists of about 40 birds, and is in an evergreen bush in a garden in Murton.
Dalton’s Point 29 December 2019 am: pintail, mallard, teal, shoveler, redshank, curlew, oystercatcher and 360 black-tailed godwit, the last counted from photographs. At 1115 in Cheriton churchyard/ bank of Burry Stream: woodcock flushed.
Field near Dryslwyn, Towy Valley: 37 Whooper and 16 Mute Swans, Small flock of Barnacle Geese, 7 Red Kite and four Buzzards. Two Bullfinch nearby,
Wernffrwd (AM): 2 great white egret, merlin, 5 slavonian grebe (per RHAT)
Yesterday at Whiteford: 2 great northern diver, merlin, long-tailed duck (f) and 4 slavonian grebe.
Oxwich (PM): large numbers of snipe present. 44 flushed from small area on fringe of marsh while filling bird feeders. No jacks noted
20 Goldfinches at a pre-roost gathering in Murton on 27th December.