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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.
Male and female blackcap in Langland garden this morning
Jay with a long-tailed tit in its beak this morning in the Clyne Valley. Nature red in tooth and claw!
Lot of redwings roosting in the woodland, but nothing else of note.
Penclawdd Marsh 11th: 6 spoonbill sitting roosting together in the distance. This morning, 17 canada goose and a peregrine falcon.
Hi Lukas, that’s a great count of Spoonbills. I’m interested to now if they were on the opposite side of the estuary?
4 Snipe, Fieldfare, 6+ Meadow Pipits and a female Kestrel on a frozen Clyne Common this morning.
Fferm Y Garth Farm,Ynystawe. A bit blowy and cold. On the Tawe Dipper(5),Grey Heron(1).At Garth Bullfinch(5),Song Thrush(15),Redwing(10),Nuthatch(5),Treecreeper(1),Great Spotted Woodpecker(1),Blackbird(7), and a foraging flock of Long Tail Tit(12),Great Tit(7),Blue Tit(9),Coal Tit(4) and Goldcrest(1).
Sightings at Penclawdd Pill this afternoon included 2 Spoonbill, 3 Greenshank & 2,030 Black-headed Gull (the latter around mouth of pill at dusk). Highlights at Wernffrwd were two Chiffchaff (1 nominate, 1 tristis), Water Pipit, 5 Jack Snipe, 2 Green Sandpiper & 300+ Golden Plover. Happy with that!
More than 60 Golden Plover on the Vile this afternoon together with about 50 Lapwings.
Port Talbot Docks & Afan Estuary.- 5 Little Grebes,1 Great Crested, 33 Mallard,3 Moorhens,16 Coot,2 Canada Geese,20 Lapwings, 1 Redshank,1 Common Sandpiper & a Kingfisher. c60 Goldfinches over Cramic Way (near railway stn.)
Excellent count Paul. Largest one I am aware of – certainly in recent years. Please can you make sure this gets to the County Recorder (with an Ordnance Survey Grid Reference), as it is a good record for Gower Birds.
A Buzzard has been regularly visiting the neighbouring field to my garden in Southgate over the last few weeks and taking an interest in both rabbits and earthworms there. Today it spent much of the day on my hedge and I suspect is actually roosting within the hedge.
Oxwich Point to Slade. 70 golden plover in fields. 41 (forty one) purple sandpipers on gently sloping slabs between Slade and Oxwich Point in howling easterly gale – more than I have seen in my whole life (so far).
Great view of Male Hen Harrier hunting on Clyne common, opposite airport on A4118. 9.05am this morning .
Black redstart above Pobbles today (per Richard Dann).
Female kestrel on Clyne Common. 41 Mediterranean gulls on the shore at Bracelet my largest count there for a while. Magpies collecting nesting material in Langland.
Llanrhidian Marsh Today: Good sized flock of plovers, 42 lapwing and 900 golden plover. Also 1 brant and a peregrine falcon.
Crofty Salt Marsh Early This Morning: 1 lapwing/ 130 golden plover/ 9 shelduck/ 3 mallard/ 13 teal/ 1 stonechat/ and 900 BH Gulls overhead. possibly some meds and some common mixed in.
Walk up Cwm Dyffryn between Wildbrook-Ty`n y Fram (3.4kms) 24 Robins singing,also 4 singing Song Thrushes,1 Mistle Thrush 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers (one drumming). Other species included 7 Magpies,Dipper,Buzzard Nuthatches,Blue,Great & Coal Tits etc.
Dalton’s Point Penclawdd Today: 26 grey plover/ 50 dunlin/ 2 common gull/ 4 wigeon/ 4 pintail/ 13 teal
Crofty Salt Marsh (51.630565, -4.134778) 2 great egret/ 26 brant/ 2 raven/
Polish ringed BH gull at Knab Rock this afternoon. Details submitted to the scheme..
Ive seen this bird in previous years so assume its a regular overwinterer like a lot of our Med Gulls
I told Jeremy that 5 snipe on Clyne Common would be a poor showing; 20 very good. In fact, when I went, I had an hour out there, west and south of the track to Broadley Farm. 2 meadow pipits, a raven, some carrion crows, 3+ buzzards and 16 common snipe.
Female Greater Spotted Woodpecker on feeder in our garden in Bishopston yesterday.
Clydach.On the garage roof eyeing the House Sparrows. Looks like an immature male.
Raven carrying nesting material over Mumbles Hill in the direction of the islands.
Male and female Peregrines perched on the aerials on BT Tower at 08.20 this morning. Both flying around the area and retuning to the tower.
Yesterday, heard 2 Song thrush singing and a Green woodpecker on my local walk in Crynant. Today, murky and damp and more birds in my garden then the woods! Pleased to see a female Bullfinch coming regularly to the feeders.