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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.
Fairwood Common this evening: single Cuckoo heard and seen – eventually flew off pursued by small birds. Also similar species to last night and plenty of Meadow Pipits displaying for Cuckoo to choose from!
Which part of Fairwood Common please..
Hi Alun, anywhere in area between Swansea City training ground, the main south road across Fairwood Common and Pwll Mawr (Upper Killay pond, close to Uplands rugby club) and areas beyond! Also worth checking overhead wires.
Fairwood Common, Gower this evening: 2 Cuckoos seen flying together, repeated calling from one. Greenfinches noisy, Whitethroat displaying, Stonechats, Linnets, Song Thrush, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Reed Bunting, Swallow etc. On Pwll Mawr Heron, 2 male Gadwall, Moorhens & Mallard. On way home 3rd Cuckoo heard from different location towards Hen Parc Lane area.
Pair of choughs close to the footpath just east of Whiteshell Point then flew further east. No leg rings visible. Time 09:23
Latest news from Gower Ringing Group is here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/late-may-2021-at-oxwich-marsh-a-gower-society-grant-and-ces-continues/
Great work and always interesting data.Hope it continues for many years to come.
Tir John pool 2 little grebes two pair of tufteds sedge and reed warblers buzzard over
At pant a sais usuall stuff, ten Ravens over the woods being mobbed by carrion crows and jackdaws some were were juvs judging by the scruffy appearance of the wings.
GOS Field Trip to Rhossili (29/05/2021) (Summary by Jeremy Douglas-Jones) Our first post lock-down field trip, and twenty-seven participants met at Rhossili car park for a walk through the Vile to Mewslade Valley, then to the cliff-top path to Fall Bay and back to Rhossili for a lunch break. Seventeen of us then made the crossing to the Inner Head of the Worm. The group consisted almost equally of long-standing members and new members who have been attracted to join GOS by the new website and bird reports on Twitter and Facebook. This new approach to publicising the Society has… Read more »
30/05. Mill Wood, Penrice (with Miguel Lurgi). Raven has fledged in Mill Wood. Young bird with adults around plantation. Also a family party of marsh tit, with adults feeding at least two young. Other fledglings included great spotted woodpecker, coal tit, song thrush and goldfinch. Sparrowhawk over the wood and a distant cuckoo. 29/05. Oxwich (Gower Ringing Group). A red kite and a buzzard being mobbed by a sparrowhawk over the marsh was nice. Quiet on the passerine front, but fledglings included goldfinch, greenfinch and dunnock, while a reed warbler captured by Richard Dann about a week before in his… Read more »
Photograph of a whitethroat taken between Rotherslade and Limeslade by Christiane Bonham
Dipper and Grey Wagtail on the stream at Ilston yesterday 26th May.
Fenrod lake this evening a nice male goosander,a great crested grebe, 30 + Canada geese 20+ mute swan usuall mallards coots moorhens Roland the car park rat was showing well,on the walk to the bridge 6 more of his relatives were seen also robins, blackbirds song thrush,blue and great tits
At least four active Great Spotted Woodpecker nests along half a mile stretch at Cwm Clydach.26.05.2021
Closer view than the previous one.
Parc le Breos: spotted flycatcher still present near Green Cwm Cottage. Has been there for over a week. Calling repeatedly, but no second bird apparent. Marsh tit (2) near Shepherds, two shelduck up the valley was unexpected.
Oxwitch.
In the bay Guillemot 3, Gannet 4
In the NNR Willow Warbler 3 in song local to the hide. Also, inside the entrance to the hide a nest of Tree Bumblebee, Bombus hypnorum, and along the boardwalk a small rhododendron covered in male Early nesting bumblebees, Bombus pratorum plus a few workers and a few Common carders, Bombus pascuorum. Also what appeared to be a Queen Large garden bumblebee, Bombus ruderatus. Unfortunately I did not have my collection gear with me to confirm.
Wernffrwd. Two Wheatears on the salt marsh.
Mill Wood: fully grown nestling raven in pine with adult in attendance. A fox cub nearby. A whitethroat singing from a patch of willow next to a recently-created (NRW) pond was unexpected. Also singing stock dove, and more bullfinches than on recent visits.
South of Loughor Bridge on the run up to HT. Oystercatcher 32, of which 14 were first summer birds, Canada Goose 10, Shelduck 8, GC Grebe 2.
Castell Du this evening Canada Goose 4, Little Egret 1, Sparrowhawk 1
It’s not everyday you get Zebra Finch in the garden ! These two dropped in this evening much to the annoyance of the nesting Blue Tits.Clydach 24.05.2021
Hi Dewi. Please do send the record to the county recorder, Rob Taylor (details on contact us page). We don’t get many exotica!
I’ll make sure I do that Owain.Exotica is not good for my cardiac health.At first I thought they were sparrows with make-up.
Cefn Bryn this evening: heron, skylarks, meadow pipit, stonechats, wheatear and my first swift(s) of the year.
Cwm Clydach Reserve 24.05.2021. A family flock of Treecreeper(2 adults and 4 juvenile) and Nuthatch chicks keen to be fed.
Castell Du this evening
Canada Goose 15, Mallard 21, all drakes, a bachelor party! Shelduck 4, Wheatear 2, Sand Martin 30
Isolated Cwm Tawe area. Goosander at nesting site.Chicks are ready to depart but high water levels and fast flow mean its a risky business today.Unfortunately did not have a long lense.
Parc le Breos: spotted flycatcher (in two locations including on the woodland edge opposite the Neolithic burial chamber), stock dove (3), brown hare (2), marsh tit.
21 May, Middle head
We saw some rock pipits and a flock of around 6 ruddy turnstones.
Port Eynon
Dunlin 21 including a flock of 16 that flew off the beach and high north, presumably to the Burry, Sanderling 7, Ringed Plover 2, Whimbrel 2, Turnstone 1. Guillemot 7, one in the bay, the rest down channel, Fulmar Petrel 11, Gannet 6, Manx Shearwater 10, all down channel, Shag 2 on the rocks
Clydach.Ten days ago these were noisy chicks in a nesting cavity.Today they are a noisy presence in the back garden.Several family flocks of parents and 3-5 chicks are around the village now.