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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.
Coed darcy house landarcy
17 house martins nests under the office roof don’t know how many are occupied plenty of martins about some nest still being built
Spotted Flycatcher feeding over pond today. Millwood Lodge.
Found dead Siskin in garden with ring id. AKD0953.No obvious cause of death.
Ringed as a young bird at Oxwich in June 2019 Jon.
If you could formally report here: https://app.bto.org/euring/lang/pages/rings.jsp it will ensure all details are captured by the BTO.
Thank you
Owain
Cwm Clydach lower end of RSPB reserve. Spotted Flycatcher(2). North of Pont Llechart Spotted Flycatcher(4),Pied Flycatcher(8),Redstart(2).Plenty of the commoner species Chiffchaff,Willow Warbler,Blackcap,Song Thrush,Blackbird etc
Parc le Breos / Park Wood: spotted flycatcher on the track edge south of Green Cwm Cottage at SS 53256 90103, cuckoo on the edge of Cefn Bryn near Long Oaks. Marsh tit the best of the rest.
Mill Wood early AM: marsh tit (2) the only real highlight from walking all of the tracks. The spotted flycatchers and wood warbler of last week appear to have moved on.
Latest news from Gower Ringing Group is here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-14-may-2021-an-itinerant-finch-and-a-returning-tit/
Cuckoo prolonged calling this evening at Fairwood Common and seen on overhead wires, dropping down to catch food (looked like a large caterpillar) then returning to wires to eat.
Cuckoo calling last night in Clyne Valley at around 11 p.m.
Oxwich Marsh: grasshopper warbler reeling, 41 siskins. 6 greylags over marsh
Cwm Clydach(13.05.2021).Quick walk from RSPB car park up to Glyn Coch Farm(left side of river) Spotted Flycatcher(7),Grey Wagtail(5)Dipper(1 darting up and down the river) Robin and Wren everywhere !.Nuthatch at nesting site at two locations.Plenty of Blackcap including family parties of several fledglings.
Rhyslyn Afan valley cuckoo seen and heard,buzzards, usual warblers and songbirds
Last Friday halfway down a cliff I saw five or six warblers (probably chiffchaff, but some with pale legs, and one ringed bird) eating gorse flowers — picking them off, rolling them in the bill, and dropping them. Is that common behaviour?
I saw this with another chiffchaff yesterday (Wed). I think they are eating the gorse elaiosomes.
Clyne Gardens: tawny owl young earlier this month. Photo by Christianne Bonham
Fenrod lake
26 mute swans, 15 Canada geese, tufteds,mallards,pochard,a great crested grebe moorhen with young ,coots,lots of Marin’s and swallows, not a swift in sight.
Nearby small fishermans lake (heol fenrod ) mute swan on nest coot on nest ,cormorant, moorhen, blackcap chiff chaff ,robin, dunnock,song thrush,blackbird,chaffinch.
Tir John pond port tenant,young little grebe sedge warbler,2 pair of tufteds, coots moorhen,blue great and coal tits, a pair of Canada geese on the playing field.
Plenty of Swift at the Garth Clydach Terry.
Thanks Richard my local breeders in Briton ferry are not back yet hope for a better breeding season than last year .
A cuckoo on the edge of Cefn Bryn Common at Cillibion. A couple of extra stock dove territories around the edges of the woodland at Parc le Breos (following a few last week). Lots of fledged song thrushes and blackbirds
Cwm Clydach 10th May 7 pied and 2 spotted flycatchers, blackcap, chiffchaff, siskin, heron, dipper, buzzard, marsh tit.
Great record of Marsh Tit Paul.How far up the Cwm did you go ?
Sorry Dewi, I have not been on the GOS site for a couple of weeks and have just seen your comment (I work alternate fortnights so I tend to go off message for two weeks!) . I usually park at Pont Llechart and walk as far as the footbridge below Twll y Gwyddyl. The marsh tit was about half way between these two bridges.
Wow what a fantastic day you had. Well done.
Early morning walk around part of Clydach located 11 Starling breeding/nesting sites( evidence of noise from chicks and/or adult birds carrying food) All nests were located in wall crevices or gaps into roofing areas on houses.Also around 40 House Martin,10 Swallow and 5 Swift hawking insects above the Tawe up river from Forge Fach.
Mill Wood, Penrice: singing wood warbler (only my second ever spring record on the peninsula), 3 spotted flycatchers (including a vocal apparent pair), 2 marsh tit, singing stock dove, and a supporting cast of siskin, bullfinch, quite a few singing treecreepers, mistle thrush etc. Assume the wood warbler is a passage bird, but hopeful the apparent pair of spotted flycatcher may stick around.
A red kite being mobbed by 2 lapwings over coed darcy this afternoon 9th also 2 Canada geese present
Read about the recommencement of CES ringing in 2021 here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/ces-2021-commences/
Captures included this lovely lesser redpoll (picture by Tom Wright)
2 Wheatear on Salthouse Point, Crofty as the tide came in this afternoon.
Lovely photo Derek
Thanks Owain
Male and female whitethroat, between Overton and Paviland, also male Yellowhammer, and male Wheatear in the same field. Saw a Swift at Port Eynon. Plenty of Stonechats and Goldfinch about. Heard what I thought was a Grasshopper warbler at Horton but BirdNET Id’d it as a Sedge Warbler. Lots of Swallows on Gower now.
Whinchat present on the headland (Tutt Head) between Limeslade and Bracelet until at least 10:45 this morning.(also seen by Miguel Lurgi). 1 red-throated diver and a good number of gannets offshore
Moorhen(Iâr ddŵr) chicks on Swansea Canal at Clydach.Seven in total,wonder how many will survive ? A sign of the times,one of the chicks was using a discarded frozen food pack for rafting while two of its siblings used the ‘traditional’ floating branch.