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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.
04/01.
– Long-tailed duck, 2 red-throated diver, purple sandpiper at Rhossili (per RHAT)
– 66 brent geese, 700 dunlin, 15 curlew, 35 shelduck and a variety of other wildfowl and waders at Salthouse Point, Crofty (per HFC).
– 71 birds captured at Pwll Du by Gower Ringing Group, including marsh tit, 6 bullfinch, 9 robins and 5 house sparrows.
Ad wp Little Gull with Bheads below the swansea barrage mid day saturday 4th jan
Gnoll 2nd Pond Neath
Female red crested Pochard being reported on Twitter.
Great northern diver actively foraging off Mumbles Pier 13:15. Then flew west towards Bracelet.
22 dunlin on old lifeboat slip
Gnoll Pond Neath
Male garganey still there at 3 pm very confiding coming close to people feeding ducks
Great Grey Shrike Afan forest found by Darren Coombes on twitter.. @stegbirder
A slavonian grebe, a group of 8 red-breasted mergansers and numerous brent geese, duck (shoveler, pintail, wigeon), waders (inc. curlew, grey plover, knot) off Wernffrwd mound this morning at high tide. Two great white egret foraging close by.
Found the Goldfinch roost I remarked about on 27th December. It consists of about 40 birds, and is in an evergreen bush in a garden in Murton.
Dalton’s Point 29 December 2019 am: pintail, mallard, teal, shoveler, redshank, curlew, oystercatcher and 360 black-tailed godwit, the last counted from photographs. At 1115 in Cheriton churchyard/ bank of Burry Stream: woodcock flushed.
Field near Dryslwyn, Towy Valley: 37 Whooper and 16 Mute Swans, Small flock of Barnacle Geese, 7 Red Kite and four Buzzards. Two Bullfinch nearby,
Wernffrwd (AM): 2 great white egret, merlin, 5 slavonian grebe (per RHAT)
Yesterday at Whiteford: 2 great northern diver, merlin, long-tailed duck (f) and 4 slavonian grebe.
Oxwich (PM): large numbers of snipe present. 44 flushed from small area on fringe of marsh while filling bird feeders. No jacks noted
20 Goldfinches at a pre-roost gathering in Murton on 27th December.