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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.
Oxwich Marsh 02/05
Two male and possibly one female cuckoo present (bubbling calls briefly heard).
Grasshopper warbler reeling most of the morning. Good numbers of whitethroat present.
Peregrine and goshawk through.
The first juvenile dippers seen this year, on our local river Dulais, at Treforgan Crynant this morning.
This afternoon there was a Ringtail circling ove the latest burning on Cefn Bryn, perhaps she likes her rodents very well done. Whoever started that fire wants ######!!!!
Two Red Kites over the house in West Cross today at 11.20.
Yesterday evening there were about 10 house martins and a couple of swallows flying around Clyne Farm Activity Centre, 7.30ish. Two male cuckoos calling a little later – the first on the west side of Clyne valley, where the woods meet the farmland, and the second in a comparable habitat to the east above the stream, nester to the Railway Inn. A female tawny owl calling in Mill Wood at around 9.30.
3 Swifts over Manselton. Very high, screaming (not me that is).
First seen last year on 11 May.
As I’m a visitor to Gower, not sure how common they are around here but I put up 2 Red-legged Partridge from a footpath through the gorse scrub above Overton Mere this afternoon. If nothing else is seemed slightly incongruous habitat
They do get recorded in that general area Dave. Not sure if they are streetwise birds from a release some time ago or are being topped up through regular releases. Worth putting the record into the county recorder as we will get relatively few reported in the recording area each year.
I photographed one in my garden in Swansea a few weeks ago. A very surprising visitor as I am not living next to farmland.
Golden Plover, Whiteford Sands, Saturday
Pair of House Martins flying around Port Eynon this morning and a single Whitethroat in the bushes at the back of the dunes near the carpark.
Beautiful willow warbler, at Treforgan Crynant yesterday.
Southgate East Cliff this morning – common and lesser whitethroat, lots of blackcap and chiffchaff, stonechat and linnets. Chough and swallows flying around and at least three pairs of house martins busy nestbuilding
Crymlyn Bog on Saturday 25th April – lots of blackcap and chiffchaff. A selection of warblers – cetti’s warbler, willow warbler, sedge warbler. Also treecreeper, mistle thrush and green woodpecker, cuckoo and buzzard. The usual assemblage of finches and tits also present.