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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 this pm
A brief survey of the beach-Turnstone 19, Sanderling 11, Ringed Plover 9, Sandwich Tern 11, Dunlin 3, Med Gull 111. On the sea Bar t Godwit 2 with a Curlew eventually landed out of sight on the point, Arctic Skua 4, an imm then 3 dp adults together all west, Guillemot 2, Fulmar Petrel 4 west.
This pm
Tankeylake Moor Stonechat 12 at least, Wheatear 2
Broughton Bay Oyc 122, Eider 3 imm drakes, Sanderling 3, Ringed Plover 20
Oxwich Marsh. Wryneck. 1st winter trapped and ringed and released into dune grassland and scrub by the kissing gate about half way along the marsh road. Also: grasshopper warbler, grey wagtail passage noted, goshawk (2), sparrowhawk, goldfinch (50 ringed / processed).
For more information and photos of wryneck, see: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-6-september-2020-wryneck/
Photo by Richard Dann enclosed.
Castell Du this morning
Pied Wagtail 153, Kingfisher 2, Green Sand 1, C’n Sand 1, Canada Goose 12, Swallow 24, Little Grebe 1, Teal 3, Grey Wagtail 1
Loughor bridge
There was an adult spoonbill near the outflow pipe late Friday afternoon
Weobley salt marsh sat am
4 juv curlew sandpiper were with approx 450 dunlin and 250 ringed plover . 1s and 2s of sanderling , knot , turnstone and golden plover . 1 peregrine and 9 wheatear ( mixed ages) also .
This pm.
Penclawdd Redshank 158, Common Sand 1, Little Egret 24.
Llanrhidian Snipe 1, Green Sand 2, Greenshank 1, GW Egret 2, Greylag 135, Canada Goose 14, Teal 89.
Loughor Bridge Curlew 18, including a colour ringed bird, Bl t Godwit 11,Bar t Godwit 2 juvs, Greenshank 1 juv, Dunlin 8, Curlew Sand 1 juv, Knot 1 juv, Oyc 101.
at Penclawdd Pil early am 3 Common sand and 45 Redshank at Whitford point an excellent walk with 1 Whinchat , 12 Stonechat, 285 Curlew , 5 Whimbrel, 1 Bar Tailed Godwi, 14 Eider and a male Common Scoter roosted up with them. 260 Ringed Plover, 500 Dunlin, around 5-6 Curlew Sandpiper, 8 Turnstone , 12 Little Egret and 14 Great Crested Grebe.12 Alba and 1 yellow wag. 40 Gannet A Slavonian grebe was a total surprise in full sum plumage in the channel in front of the hide . also Migrant and Southern Hawker Dragonfly on the walk back… Read more »
Castell Du Common Sand 3, Goosander 3, Canada Goose 36, Pied Wag 88.
Owain you suggested you might be able to put me in contact with Tony Cross, any joy there?
try again to same email – think Tony must have been away i have had answer in last days so expect you will
Paul – have emailed you his number
Sketty Lane: 50 black-headed, 38 Mediterranean and 1 common gull Ashleigh Road: 61 Mediterranean gulls Mumbles Pier: distant bird on water – prob great crested grebe, but too far out for bins Bracelet: 16 Mediterranean gull, 7 black-headed gull Influx of black-headed gulls noted with numerous small flocks of 20-30 birds on amenity grassland and coastal shore between West Cross and the Blackpill golf course Grey wagtails moving overhead Disappointing to see dogs chasing the birds in the Blackpill roost at dawn this morning – they really don’t have a chance there. Oystercatchers displaced east as a result – flew… Read more »
Pleasant evening at Gnoll Park with Phil Routliff. Counted 113 Mallard,4 Tufted Ducks, a male Mandarin, 16 Moorhens, 6 Coot,2 Mute Swans with 6 cygnets and 68 Black-headed Gulls.
From time to time I have recorded the progress of a pair of herring gulls, each bird in its first breeding year, trying and failing to nest in our garden. They are still together as a pair. A week or ten days ago the male had picked up a serious injury to its right leg. I thought it would not walk again and that its breeding fitness would be much impaired. Today, to my agreeable surprise, it is trying to use the leg. Chiefly it is hopping. It still falls on its belly. Some of the time it feeds when… Read more »