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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.
Oystermouth Square
8 ringed plover & 2 dunlin
Blackpill HW: 71 black-headed and 6 Mediterranean gulls. 2 little egret. Small numbers of oycs
Sketty Lane: 21 black-headed and 3 Mediterranean gulls
Ashleigh Road: 13 Mediterranean gulls
Mumbles Pier: 2 Sandwich tern
Bracelet: 17 Mediterranean gulls, 1 common gull, 4 black-headed gulls, 2 little egret.
New ringing blog post here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-31-august-2020-summer-wags-its-tail/
At the mouth of gowerton pill by Loughor bridge 1 juv curlew sandpiper with 6 dunlin, 8 redshank, 6 black tailed godwit, 7 curlew spread out plus background of oystercatcher and BH gull . 2 young red kite were settled on a drift-tree on the marsh feeding on something they’d come across .
Earlier 1 goosander , 1 lapwing , 2 snipe and , 220 Canada geese at castell du .
Ed hunter had 2 juv curlew sandpiper near Loughor boating club in the morning also
Movement of grey wagtails this morning, with c. 10 ringed at Oxwich Marsh
Also tree pipit, whitethroat, small numbers of reed, sedge and willow warbler, and two common snipe
A swift over Briton ferry this afternoon
40+ Pied Wagtails on Llandimore Marsh this morning.
Oxwich Marsh: whinchat, 4+ tree pipit, 2 willow warbler, green sandpiper (flyover).
13 Canada geese.
The Gower Society ‘phoned me today. There has been a complaint to one of their VCs of ‘men’ shooting swallows and house martins on private land in the south of the peninsula. The GS told its informant that he should report the matter to the police, who should have a designated wildlife officer. ‘Men’ suggests not boys. My contributions to the conversation were a) get car numbers, and b) put notices in nearby shop and Post Office windows. The informant is not someone I know; and I am not being more specific as to who he is or where. If… Read more »
Two Wheatears on Tears Point bank this morning. Stone Chats above Fall Bay and small numbers of Goldfinches near Nitten Field.
Llansamlet Recycling Centre: ring-necked parakeet
Sketty Lane / Ashleigh Road: 56 Mediterranean gull, 25 black-headed gull, 12 herring gull, lesser black-backed gull
0630 Oxwich, west end of bay: c30 pied wagtails in a loose flock.
Ashleigh Road: 42 Med gulls and a common gull on central pitch
Sketty Lane: 15 Med gulls and 14 black-headed gulls
The migrant moth Palpita vitrealis to light in Langland last night (26/08)