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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.
Port Eynon. A two hour seawatch this afternoon. All birds moving down channel within the E Hellwick buoy.
Gannet 24, Guillemot 6, Razorbill 2, G N Diver 1 in full bp, Manx Shearwater 10, Storm Petrel 3.
Coming to Gower for a birding break soon although must admit to never going to Port Eynon point sea watching, will do this time. Perhaps after Rhossili in the morning?
2 whimbrel at the bottom of sketty lane on the beach this morning.
Two swifts over the Llanrhidian end of the Marsh road this afternoon.
66 Kittiwakes on the Mumbles Pier ledges this morning: 48 on the NW side and 18 on the SE side.
About 10 swifts over the trees to the west of the college in Mount Pleasant at the moment.
Good to see not only a buzzard but a peregrine over Fairwood golf course this week.
Our current Events plan for the next 9 months – with a few more still to be confirmed.
See: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/events/
A stand out spring bird for the recording area was this second calendar year woodchat shrike, found by Rob Jones at Morfa Tip, NPT, on Sat 9 May. The second for NPT, with both found by Rob (the first on 22 May 2013).
Please note that our Events page has now been updated. We will be offering over 20 events over the coming 9 months. Have a look and get some of them in your diaries.
https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/events/
13 May. 3 whimbrel on high water strand line on deserted Pwlldu beach this afternoon.
Counts on the falling tide at Morfa Bacas this evening included 201 Oystercatcher, 1 Grey Plover, 9 Whimbrel, 13 Curlew, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 393 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Knot and 55 Dunlin. Also a singing Cuckoo
At Penclawdd in the early afternoon an Osprey flew over heading NW
Here’s the proof!!
A pair of Little ringed Plovers observed copulating this week at WWT Llanelli.