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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.
Not a sighting but does anyone know how to get in touch with Tony Cross, I’ve tried his virgin e mail address but have got no response?
I can help you Paul. I am on holiday at the moment, but will send through when back in the office.
Thanks Owain
Oxwich Marsh 15/08. Grasshopper warbler, tree pipit, kingfisher.
Ed Hunter took the lead in a three mile GOS walk at Port Eynon this weekend; we saw twenty-six species, a very good tally considering the “pour” weather. We started at the Salt House with an incoming tide and soon found Dunlin, Turnstone, Sandwich Tern and dozens of Ringed Plover. To the top of Port Eynon head and into Overton bay where we saw a juv Kestrel, and a Buzzard being mobbed by a Sparrow Hawk. There were Swallows and House Martins and out at sea a couple of Fulmars. Back down to the Salt House and we found Common… Read more »
12 chough to and fro on the cliffs at Pennard in the last week, which means four arrivals from elsewhere.
It’s getting more difficult to distinguish the young by bill and leg colour or flight manner, but some of them are still begging for food.
13th August, at least 67 turnstone on old lifeboat slipway , Mumbles
Penclawdd carpark: c80 redshanks, 4 little egrets, 3 pied wagtails. Dalton’s Point: swallows and 12 little egrets (ten of them together). Marsh road: a house martin. Wernffrwd: c390 starlings on wires (counted photographically, but still a circa figure). Little Wernhalog: peregrine and bullfinch.
Hundreds of Swifts flying NNW over Middleton Wednesday evening. Have probably nested again this year in Lewes Castle.
Today delightful female Wheatear on cliffs above Mewslade beach together with small flocks of Linnets and Goldfinches about 50 in each. Also a number of juvenile Stonechats with adults, Meadow Pips and Dunnocks. Swifts, Swallows, Choughs and Raven overhead.
Yellowhammer calling opposite Nitten Field.
2 common sandpipers Pwlldu bay 10/08/2020 3pm
2 common sandpipers Pwlldu Bay east side, Monday 10th August 3pm
Bracelet Bay
Only 2 med gulls in the car park this afternoon
Mumbles Pier
Great to see so many fledged kittiwakes forming rafts around the old lifeboat station. Constantly being harassed by a couple of juvenile Great Blackbacked Gulls (they look huge in comparison)
Wernfrydd
Marsh road this afternoon 26 grey lag geese including juvs two Ravens,a few goldfinch, 8 house sparrows including six juvs,two reed bunting, three juvenile stonechats, 15 swallows, a few meadow pipits,linnets starlings,and a kestrel.