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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.
Penclawdd Pill: 1 common sandpiper/ 1 ringtail hen harrier
Penclawdd pill 1 Greenshank, 1 Kingfisher and 1 Red Kite over the saltings.
Salthouse Point 1 female Merlin
Oxwich Marsh: 4 chiffchaff of which two were tristis-type birds, kingfisher, numerous snipe, flyover lesser redpoll.
A very successful field trip today when 17 of us went to Brunel Dock / Neath Estuary. Rob Jones found us 42 species including red kite, kingfisher, heron (4), egret, snipe and sky larks (4) and good numbers of Curlew (80+), to name just a few. Oystercatcher (250+) turnstone, common sandpiper, water rail, stonechat, and many more. A great day, so Whiteford next month looks promising: don’t miss it.
Prince of Wales Dock, Swansea (overlooked by the Premier Inn, Rasoi restaurant etc). Had prolonged (close if we were in the right place) of a Great Northern Diver slowly making its way around the perimeter of the dock. Incredibly I then heard an unknown bird call which turned out to be a Little Gull which landed in the centre of the dock and bobbed around near a Black Headed Gull which was good for size comparison. When we left there at 11.50 am both birds were still there.
Hen harrier just flew past – Penclawdd Marsh
Ringtail hen harrier from Penclawdd marsh today and yesterday. Also 2 great white egret and a peregrine falcon.
Mumbles Pier
Good wader roost on the old lifeboat Slip.
150-200 birds.. mainly dunlin with turnstone and a few redshank.. I can’t see any purple sands..
And redstart so briefly seen in flight on the cafe roof..
Black redstart this morning behind Mumbles pier café.
Since yesterday’s post has vanished?
Mumbles Hill 1 Chiffchaff
And today
Salthouse Point 1 Red-breasted Merganser female Type
Penclawdd 1 ringtail Hen Harrier 10.30am and 3pm and probably the same bird near Llanrhidian roost site 4pm. 1 Common Sandpiper in the pill.
Rhosili 1 Great Northern Diver off the Crabart.
Where in Penclawdd exactly was the ringtail hen harrier?
Lukas,
Both times I was parked in the car park and the bird flew in from the west the other side of the river, diverted to visit the old sewage works and then continued east and disappeared behind the same. It’s just working the marsh, as was it or another at Llanrhidian. Good luck. Sounds like there’s a male working the Gower commons. All may appear at dusk if you’re watching the Llanrhidiam roosting?
Thanks a lot ian!
I ended up getting great views of the harrier from my house overlooking the marsh near Berth Llwydd.
Female eider diving close to rocks, Oxwich west, 1530 Nov 18th.
Fenrod lake pm 65 Canada geese, 20+ mute swan,15 tufted duck, one male pochard, one female teal,15 coot, 50+ black headed gulls, 12 + moorhen, 10 house sparrows, 2 chaffinch,usual mallards and hybrids