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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.
Swansea Barrage 1ad Little Gull with the Blackheads feeding just below the weir at highish tide.
Penclawdd Pill 8:58: 1 greenshank and a good selection of gulls 60 herring, 1 lesser-black backed, 1 great-black backed, 39 black-headed, and 1 common. Also 2 teal, 7 redshank, 2 curlew, 2 little egret, 1 buzzard
Penclawdd Marsh 9:30: 12 greylag goose, 4 mute swan, 30 knot, 1 great egret and 7 golden plover
22nd Dec: dunnock singing Caswell Bay Road Bishopston pm.
Penclawdd Marsh 9:00: 2 buzzard/ 1 red kite/ and any idea what this is please….? A greenshank from the pill?
Hi Lukas. Yes, that’s a greenshank. Regards, Owain
Thanks!
Nice selection of Med gulls at Bracelet Bay, Mumbles this morning including this ringed bird..
Yesterday morning, Penclawdd Marsh… 3 snipe/ 1 kingfisher/ 1 common sandpiper/ 22 greylag goose/ 4 mute swan/ 6 shelduck
Penclawdd car park opposite chip shop, two greenshank and an overwintering common sandpiper. 25 greylags, 4 mute swans further out across marsh. Also egrets, curlews, redshank, skylarks. Poor light at times hence poor resolution on common sandpiper photo. 1400 20/12/20.
Marsh tit at Gower Heritage Centre, Parkmill
At nant fenrod this morning 2 female goosanders
A few good birds at Penclawdd Marsh this morning (high tide). Greylag goose, wigeon, teal, gadwall, pintail, knot, dunlin, and redshank. Highlight was 15 golden plover.
Single great crested grebe in Bracelet Bay this afternoon
c100 scoter around yellow buoy off Three Cliffs Bay (photo part of flock from Oxwich Head) and ? auk sp ?? razorbill in bay (also a long way off). Heron, little egret, 6 curlew, 4 turnstone Oxwich Head and female sparrowhawk on clifftop. Dec 15th, 1430.