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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.
Fenrod lake this afternoon 18 mute swan 30 Canada geese 80+ black h gulls 60 herring gull few tufted coots moorhen chaffinch house sparrows. And mallards.
The quays Briton ferry this evening trying to count the pre roost jackdaw flock about 500+ by taking photos just put the camera away when a barn owl flew out of the council depot and over my head always nice to see one.
6 Choughs on the 7th fairway Langland Bay Golf Club this morning
Blackpill after high tide this morning
NO med gulls at all… must have been foraging elsewhere in Gower
4 little egrets
1 sandwich tern
200 herring gulls
10 lbbs
1 gbb
100 bh gulls
20 oycs
1 Brent goose
A brief stop on the Middle Head, Mumbles resulted in a late tree pipit over. Also moving (in approx 20 minutes): 60+ goldfinch, 20+ greenfinch, 20 + linnet, a few siskin, numerous meadow pipit, 4-5 grey wagtails and a few white / pied wags.
Redpoll over the garden (Langland) this morning in small numbers.
Also the non-native invasive box tree moth to light this morning.
out at Weobley saltings this morning on the incoming high spring tide were only 2 small sandpipers, 1 dunlin and 1 little stint. 8 golden plover flying around the only other sandpipers\plovers seen.
approx 30 skylark, 50+ meadow pipit, and around 40 linnet were being pushed back by the flooding tide. 2 green sandpiper , 5 snipe and 8 wheatear were at the base of the saltmarsh near the reen.
4 Wheatears, 1 Whinchat with a number of Stonechats, Meadow Pipits and Linnets near Sluxton Farm, Rhossili Down. Choughs overhead.
Aberavon Beach with Phil Routliff- 8 Guillemots,8 Cormorants,very small numbers of waders, 56 Black-headed Gulls,221 Herring Gulls,21 Lesser & 1 Great -black backed gull. 2 Ravens & a Adult male Wheatear.
Hobby hawking around Oxwich marsh this morning, now over the dunes opposite.. also Grass Hopper Warbler & whitethroat.. per Owain Gabb & Gower Ringing Group
High tide this morning at Culfor road , Loughor,,,,juv ruff , prob male on size , juv curlew sandpiper , grey plover ( all singles) , 82 redshank, 8 dunlin , 6 snipe , 36 teal .
A few hours up the gnoll with grandkids managed to sneak a few bird counts 105 black h gulls 24 Canada geese 3 grey wagtail 20 mallards a buzzard and two red kites
Whiteshell Point again. Five choughs in a flock seen from the path both going and coming. I flushed two as I climbed down to the rocks, so that’s more probably a total of seven than five. Before going into a cave I saw one rock pipit. Once in the cave I flushed another and it flew out at the north end of the tunnel-cave.
I walked from Brunel Dock to the river mouth this morning.7 Linnets, 2 Meadow pipits, I fem/imm Wheatear, 53 Curlew, 24 Dunlin, min 5 Ringed plover,4 Black tailed godwits, 1 Little egret. About 2000 Oystercatchers on the Crymlyn Burrows side of the river which were flushed by a man walking as close as he could to them to take a photo on his phone .His dogs were well-behaved and didn’t chase the birds .On the way back there were 24 Redshank in Brunel dock as the tide dropped. I didn’t count the gulls although most were Black headed with a… Read more »