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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.
Large flock of starlings (several 100) on Ashleigh Road playing fields. Also a large number of gulls, crows and quite a few Oystercatcher and Curlew earlier in the morning. All seen at distance from the upstairs window as we’re not going outside until the wind drops!
Saturday’s field Trip to Margam has been CANCELLED due to this storm. We hope to find a replacement date but at present we hope you will all stay safe. The next trip is to Banwen on March 26th See you then.
Hundreds of gulls on Ashley Rd Playing fields . Mainly bh.. with a good sprinkling of common, a few med & herring gulls.. 20+ curlew.. 12 oycs..
Also 100+ jackdaws.. and a small mobile flock of starlings
Feb 10th Rhossili nr coastguard look out, 3 cosy pairs of fulmar on adjacent ledges and another circling up annoyingly close. Dartford warbler in Fall Bay,
Baglan rugby field 4 o clock 55 black headed gulls.17 herring gulls.2 lesser b b gulls and a common gull .
Plenty of Kittiwakes at Mumbles Pier in water and on nesting platform. Raven observing proceedings from old lifeboat house bridge. Turnstone and Dunlin on old ramp.
Rhossili: a couple of chough on the Inner Head of the Worm. Also a displaying rock pipit there. Other passerines limited to dunnock, meadow pipit and stonechat.
The Vile was quiet. 2 flocks of approx 50 goldfinch, the odd skylark and a (probable) first winter male sparrowhawk.
Red kite at Knelston
Despite football in progress, there were 41 Curlew and 61 Oystercatcher in heavy rain on Ashleigh Road playing fields at 3pm this afternoon.
Female bullfinch and male blackcap in my garden in sketty cross. A redwing eating ivy berries in the scrubland behind sketty cross.
Nice to see several Goshawks still on usual territory’s yesterday in the county. Also a pair of nest material carrying Crossbill and another pair in courtship with a rival male tagging along. Also 2 Brambling , 40 Siskin , Red kite and a male Peregrine at a usual site, there had been a female here too in December but no sign yesterday.
East Gower Cliffs (11/02): first sighting of a Dartford warbler for me this year. Better though was that it was in a territory that did not appear to be occupied last year (after the very cold Feb), but had been occupied for the previous c. 8 years at least
Where are east gower cliffs pls?
Glossy Ibis flying north west over Swansea Vale at around 5.30pm
Pair of Choughs just off path between Langland and Caswell
Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail and pair of Tree Creepers seen at the Burry Pill near Stembridge this morning. Also Merlin seen on Ryers Down. (With Andrea)
Fenrod lake
70+ Canada geese 25 mute swan 150+ black headed gulls the usual pochards tufteds coots moorhens ,and mallards. A few commons,lesser b b and herring gulls
Oxwich: brambling (f), significant influx of siskins, red-throated diver in bay
2 female Goosander and 1 Dipper on the River Dulais in Crynant this morning. A walk along the road to Cilfrew produced the usual woodland birds including singing Song and Mistle thrush, I heard at least 2 Green woodpeckers and had 2 Ravens flying over.
Singing stock dove in Clyne Gardens just before dawn this morning.
Also treecreepers starting to sing, alongside the robins and song thrushes which have been vocal for a while
Two Brent Geese on tideline opposite Mumtaz restaurant in Mumbles this afternoon around 3:30. I can’t remember seeing them there before.
Charm of 20+ Goldfinch in my back garden in Manselfield enjoying the sunflower hearts…it’s costing us a fortune! Also 3 male and 2 female Bullfinches.
Clydach.Canal Path between the closed Mond Social Club and Police Station. Black Redstart(female type) first seen on the barbed wire fence of the Mond Refinery. Then feeding in the trees and undergrowth on the canal side. Last seen in the area of dead Japanese Knotweed just before the Police Station. Very flighty at times as it was being harassed by at least three local Robins. St John’s Cemetery may be a good place to seek it out.
Nice find Dewi.
Thanks Richard.I only popped down to the Man Shed for a chat.I didn’t have a camera with me. Hopefully it will hang around for a while.
15 med gulls around Bracelet Bay carpark this lunchtime..
Female blackcap in the garden at Langland this morning. Early visitor or resident?
Mynydd Gelliwastad mountain 1 Green Woodpecker 3 Stonechats 1 male 2 female 30+ Redwings 1 Buzzard