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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.
170 dunlin, a few turnstone and a redshank on the shore near Mumbles Pier. The dunlin flock moved between here and the old lifeboat pier, with further birds on the Outer Head (maybe 300 in all – but difficult to estimate as birds were moving around). A hunting peregrine eventually pushed the flock away towards the lighthouse.
A summary of the Oxwich Ringing year 2020 is here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-ringing-report-2020/
A good range of species, despite the restrictions on our activities resulting from Covid-19. Highlights included wryneck, yellow-browed warblers, firecrests and good numbers of commoner species including grey wagtail.
Pair of Greater Spotted Woodpeckers in trees south of South Gower Rugby Club yesterday and around 6 to 8 Redwing in adjacent fields.
Clyne Woods- towards upper Killay 29/12/2020 at roughly 3.30pm. Kingfisher spotted flying across one of the ponds and then perched on a branch shortly afterwards.
Dalton’s Point 9:20am: 103 Black-tailed godwit with 1 bar-tailed hiding among them. Also a rock pipit hopping around on the rocks and in the marsh grass below the stone wall. 1 common gull, 2 grey plover, and a great egret flying overhead also observed.
Lockdown birding in Mumbles area.
Ashleigh Road: only 7 oystercatcher and 3 curlew on the western field mid morning – but low tide and plenty of dog walkers around, so birds probably in the intertidal / flushed off.
Clyne Gardens: grey wagtail on the stream, nuthatch, treecreeper, great spotted woodpecker, song thrush and various tits.
Mumbles Pier / Bracelet: 2 shag, 1 great crested grebe.
Ashleigh Road: 27 curlew, 40 oystercatcher, 3 Med gulls, 6 common gull.
Dalton’s Point Penclawdd 9:50am: 27 brant/ 2 grey plover/ 5 common gull/ 1 shoveler/ 1 greenshank/ 10 Black-tailed godwit/ 700 dunlin (out in the estuary).
Pair of willow tits today at Pontlliw via (Adam Tilt onTwitter). In trees opposite Pontlliw Auto Repairs…
Today 10:00 just around the corner from Loughor Bridge: 7 ringed plover, 2 turnstone, 12 grey plover, and 7 brant.
25th December Penclawdd Marsh: ringtail hen harrier
West Cross:
First blackcap in the garden this winter.. a nice male.. along with 6ngoldfinch.. couple of house sparrows, a dunnock and cracking pair of herring gulls