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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.
Ashley Road playing fields
30 curlew & 32 oycs
Female Hen Harrier this afternoon at Llanrhidian Marsh. Three Little Egrets in field off Murton Lane.
20 med gulls in Bracelet Bay Car Park this morning including the POLISH ringed bird PHAN & this smart individual
GS Woodpecker drumming this morning in Penllergare Valley Woods
Walk this morning with Gwyn Randall
PenBryn-Troed-y-RHIW Farm. Mistle Thush 22
Starlings c200 Fieldfare 6 Pied Wagtail 13 Magpies 20.
PenBryn. 2 Garden Feeding stations
Siskens c20 Chaffinch 70+ Blue Tits 18+
G.S.Woodpecker. Greenfinch 2. coal tits. L. T. Tits. and a lot of House Sparrows in the hedge.
Male blackcap in Uplands garden this morning – 16/2
Bracelet Bay..
Polish med Gull PHAN still here.. can’t be long before it starts its return journey..
Ashley Road playing fields..
Good numbers of smaller gulls along with many oycs, jackdaws and the odd curlew..
Amazingly there are lots of common gulls mixed in.. first time I’ve seen them here..
3 water pipit at Penclawdd from the from the car park opposite the football ground 9.30 today
c20 Curlews on Ashleigh Road playing field yesterday (12th February).
Peregrine Falcon And Buzzard at 13:00 over
Mynydd Dinas Port Talbot.
the Pennard GC chough flock seems to be down to 9 birds from last autumn’s 15
Singleton Park geese holding up.the traffic on Mumbles road.. I reckon there are 20+ birds in the flock now
32 goldfinch in morrisons car park baglan
Morning of 2 February at Wernffrwd: 8 shelduck and a stonechat. 1130 am at Port Eynon: great crested grebe.
Bracelet Bay – Mumbles
Polish Medgull PHAN still around..
South of Loughor Bridge Curlew 22, Oystercatcher 42, Bl t Godwit 3, Redshank 8, Goldeneye 5 (1 drake), GC Grebe 2, Shelduck 5, Brent 1, RB Merg 1fem, Teal 4. Bwllchmynydd Loughor Curlew 2, Shelduck 12, Dunlin 10, Redshank 27, Bl t Godwit 2, C’n Sandpiper 1.
Llanrhidian Marsh
Red kite fly over via twitter yesterday
Salthouse Point at HT. Shoveler 45, Blue winged Teal X Shoveler 1 drake hybrid (it has a dark eye and green looking head so probably not Australasian Shoveler), Pintail 43, R B Merganser 7 (3 drakes), GC Grebe 2.
Knab Rock -Mumbles
Fly past great crested grebe.. first time I’ve seen one in flight
5 early returning kittiwakes on the sea below the old lifeboat station ledges
Castell Du Red Kite 3, Redwing 18, singles of Green and C’n Sandpiper, Redshank 11, Gadwall 22, Teal 10, Shelduck 8, Curlew 25, HG 35, GBBG 5, LBBG 10, Wigeon 29, Greenshank 1, Goosander 1, Llanrhidian GWE 1, H. Harrier 1rt, Penclawdd Greenshank 1.
Pair of Dartfords at Pennard. First sighting since a single Dartford around 27th Dec. (Long-distance photos.)
Oysyermouth Square – Mumbles
20+ turnstones
1 rock pipit
3 redshank
Great Grey Shrike. Bryn NPT Still this afternoon in the vicinity of dead sheep gulley on the lower left slope between the two large pylons and showing well. #NPTbirds @GlamBirder