To add a sighting, simply leave a reply below. Enter the details of your sighting and upload an image or video clip if possible. You will need to be registered and logged-in to post updates or leave replies.
NB: Maximum size for video clips is 30Mb…
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.
Penclawdd Marsh, High Tide now: 8 brant, 64 greylag goose/ 57 canada goose/ 3 mute swan/ 3 pintail/ 22 wigeon/ 10 teal/ 200 oystercatcher/ 1 red kite/
Black Redstart female or immature on the seawall btw Blackpill and West Cross this morning
Had a Treecreeper on the Oak Tree in the garden in Tircoed over the weekend. I spotted it on 2 occasions. Lat Time we had one was over 16 years ago.
Two whooper swans flying over Penclawdd Marsh this morning, presumably the same individuals from Whiteford last month. Other birds seen include 2 mute swan/ 100 greylag goose/ 14 canada goose/ 50 shelduck/ 8 gadwall/ 32 wigeon/ 8 teal/ 1 GC grebe/ 400 oystercatcher/ 70 golden plover/ 2 skylark and a red kite.
Photos of Whooper Swan:
Dipper in the stream at the bottom of Clyne Gardens
102 oystercatchers and 41 curlew roosting on the pool on the central field at Ashleigh Rd first thing.
Penclawdd Marsh Today, High TIde:
23 shelduck, 100 greylag goose, 3 canada goose, 2 mute swan, 7 gadwall, 64 wigeon, 2 mallard, 8 teal, 7 golden plover, 1 lapwing, 40 knot, and 20 dunlin.
Penclawdd Marsh Today: 10 canada goose/ 106 greylag goose/ 1 kestrel/ 1 hen harrier/ 1 great egret/ 21 golden plover/ 3 mute swan/ (7 yesterday)/ 1 common gull/ 750 oystercatcher/
Blackpill: 247 oystercatcher, 7 bar-tailed godwit
Ashleigh Road / Sketty Lane Playing fields: 57 curlew, 132 oystercatcher, 69 black-headed,19 common and 9 Mediterranean gulls
Jersey park Briton ferry
15 blue tits,10 great tits 2 coal tits,3 nuthatch,4 Ravens ,1 buzzard,a few blackbird,song thrush,robin,wood pigeons,collard doves.carrion crow jackdaw ,house sparrow.
50+starlings over Giants grave .
Coed Fferm y Garth Farm Woods,Ynystawe.Jay(5),Long Tail Tit(14),Blue Tit(6),Coal Tit(4),Great Tit(8),Treecreeper(2),Nuthatch(2).Good numbers of Robin,Blackbird and Song Thrush. On homeward leg Goosander(3) on a fast flowing Tawe.
A Black-Headed gull ringed in Finland in June 2012 has returned to overwinter Bracelet Bay yet again.. Last seen here in 2018..
Ring necked parakeet Tesco llansamlet
Had 2 Siskins on the bird feeders this week in Tircoed Village, they visited for several days. Not seen them in the garden for over 10 years.
Had a grey wagtail in my garden in Briton ferry today not a new garden tick but a scarce visitor it upset my local robin but stayed 15 minutes
108 oystercatcher and 47 curlew on Ashleigh Road western field. The most I have seen there.
39 Greenfinch into the roost at Clydach this evening.A sign of the decline of this species.A decade ago the numbers were closer to 150.
Penclawdd Marsh: 1 snipe/ 200 wigeon/ 150 teal/ overwintering common sandpiper/ 1 water rail/ 1 goldcrest/ 1 green woodpecker/
Not much to report in lockdown, but male Blackcap on our garden feeder in Bishopston this morning, and a small flock of Pied Wagtails feeding alongside Jackdaws in the fields between Murton and Caswell. Raven also flying over same fields..
Bullfinch been feeding in the garden all week at Langland
Coed Fferm y Garth Farm Woods,Ynystawe. Nuthatch(3),Treecreeper(1),Bullfinch(11),Woodcock(1),Sparrowhawk(1),Great Spotted Woodpecker(1 drumming), good scattering of Blackbird and Song Thrush and a foraging flock of Long Tail Tit(14),Blue Tit(5),Coal Tit(2) and Great Tit(6). On homeward stretch Mistle Thrush(4) on Faerdre rugby pitch and Kiingfisher(1) on canal.
Woodcock, Red Kite up on Mynydd Gelliwastad, Morriston.
Blackcap singing at Ynys y Gored (Port Talbot) this p.m. !!
Briton ferry
A red kite over a m .jersey park p m.buzzard 2 Ravens,song thrush, blackbird, great and blue tits,robin,carrion crow ,wood pigeon,collard dove,mistle thrush,pre roost flock of 500 jackdaws est flying towards baglan ,
Giants grave canal juv mute swan ‘ 5 morhen, goldfinch house sparrow,herring gulls over.
Ring-necked parakeet at the top end of Clyne Gardens. Typically vocal.