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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.
Bracelet Bay
4 gcg’s close in this morning
Port Talbot
A very large peregrine is giving the local town centre pigeons something to worry about this morning..
Gnoll Park & Moss House Woods with Dave Cornish & Phil Routliff. 101 Mallard, 8 Tufted Duck, 12 Moorhen,6 Coot & a male Goosander. Two escapes,a male Gargany & a female Chiloe Wigeon. A Red Kite over the park plus 2 over the Ivy Tower. ” Marvel of the day ” was a torpid but fresh looking Merveille du Jour moth on the woodland floor. Sunday 8th December.
I am not convinced the Garganey is an escaped bird it arrived during a big influx of this species in to uk its unringed and doesn’t show signs of captivity.
Moderate numbers of snipe (5 captured by the ringing group), but very few passerines at Oxwich this morning. 1-2 woodcock also present in the wet woodland / scrub, and water rails and tawny owls calling first thing. Light movement of meadow pipits, and a few ravens over.
3 Water Rails calling at Oxwich Marsh this afternoon.
DKT and PRDJ Oxwich am. 6 oystercatcher, 31 sanderling, 20 ringed plover, over Nicholaston Woods 2 buzzard, edge marsh f stonechat, North Pond mute swan, South Pond 2 m shoveler, c10 teal.
However a walk through Nicholaston Wood by DKT and PRDJ produced no birds at all, and a walk by DKT along the cliff path from Langland to Caswell yesterday produced only a single Robin…..
Walk from Pontrhydyfen to Afan Argoed this morning with Gail. Dipper on the river, flock of Long tailed tits 8+, Robins in abundance, 4 Bullfinches and numerous Blue and Great tits.
Pennard GC
Red kite, buzzard, kestrel, chough… Plenty of meadow pipits..
Sunday Dec. 1st Crymlyn Burrows. Counted c440 Great Crested Grebes in Baglan/Swansea Bay, 6 Red-throated Divers, c280 Oystercatchers 4 Teal, 14 Cormorants and a huge flock of c 1600 Herring Gulls. Also present, Dave Cornish & Rob Jones.
1 peregrine (prob M), 1 kestrel (F) on cliff at Pennard this morning. Over 163 scoter near Oxwich Point. And the usual 3 chough.
Jack snipe (2) and a chiffchaff at Oxwich this morning.
Water levels lower and common snipe use of the marsh has changed, with more around the South Pond.
Less crests around (only 2 goldcrest)
One knot with the oycs at Mumbles opposite Norton House this morning high tide
Good to a handful of turnstone right in the heart of Mumbles this morning.. foraging the very small exposed shoreline outside oyster wharf.. totally unnoticed by the majority of passers by..