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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.
Langland: a calling whimbrel low over the house near Langland Corner mid-morning.
Oxwich: grasshopper warbler, reed warbler (several) and whitethroat all captured and ringed.
A very enjoyable GOS walk in Pant y Sais Fen last evening: 25 members turned out in glorious summer weather. 35 species recorded including up to five Cuckoos: 2 seen together, several other calls and sightings. (lifetime firsts for a number of the group). Full list:
Cuckoo Reed Bunting Jackdaw Carrion Crow Greenfinch Goldfinch Canada Goose LBB Gull Grey Heron Wood Pigeon Blackbird Song Thrush Blue Tit Great Tit Long Tailed Tit Blackcap Cettis Warbler Sedge Warbler Reed Warbler Chiffchaff Whitethroat Grasshopper Warbler GS Woodpecker Green Woodpecker Buzzard Dunnock Magpie Mallard Moorhen Robin Sparrow Hawk Stonechat Swallow Wren
23rd April, Grasshopper warbler at Cartersford reserve.
Willow warbler and Whitethroat calling from eastern end of Fairwood Common earlier today
Swift. Mewslade (field near tennis court). 24th April.
Kingfisher seen briefly but clearly flying across the pools that are adjacent to the path that runs between Olchfa Lane and cycle path in Clyne Woods. The second time I’ve seen one here but many years apart.
Male blackcap also seen on Clyne bridle path.
Cuckoo still showing well at Pant y Sais this morning- also 3 reed warblers, 2 sedge warblers, 3 willow warblers, 2 Cetti’s and a grasshopper warblers..
Bulch road cimla along the lane to the masts
Whinchat, whitethroat,willow warbler,swallow,5 ravens,
Wren chaffinch,robins,dunnock,blackbird,herring gull,
Buzzards wood pigeons,