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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.
As you might be able to see from these 2 images from the barrage in 2004, first is sinensis and second our local carbo. A lockdown feature making me look harder at what I can see rather than rushing around from place to place! Might still not be correct though as these 2 forms are supposed to hybridise sometimes.
A couple more trips to the barrage have failed to unearth the Little or Iceland Gulls. Did see this summer plumaged Cormorant yesterday which, if the recent articles online are correct, fit the bare skin pattern for the continental form sinensis. If you look below the eye the bare skin edge against the feathers comes straight down from the top edge. A recent winter plumaged individual from Brynmill park also fits this description. Please see the next post for a comparison with our local form carbo.
Female Kingfisher fishing the Canal,Clydach-evening 16 Jan 2021
Northern Goshawk on The Graig, Penclawdd this morning….. 51.641833, -4.091729 . Description entered into eBird: This bird immediately caught my attention as a large raptor. I had a clear view of it through my scope as it passed from the left side of my view to the right. My first thought was that this bird was a red kite due to the large size but it lacked of many red kite features. I am very familiar with all the other raptors in this area and it didn’t look like any of them. It had broad, wide wings, brown streaks across… Read more »
92 dunlin and 3 turnstone on the foreshore by Mumbles Pier.
Iis provision going to be made for the kittiwakes at the new pier development? Anybody know?
Provision for the Kittiwakes is a condition of planning consent for the new lifeboat shed and that still holds good. I was informed by the pier’s owner that the new cafe on the pier is to be called the Kittiwake Cafe.
That’s great!
Being based in Kent but a regular visitor I’ve not heard about this pier development, could you give more details?
See plan from the planning application
Just watched a Sparrowhawk taking a Nuthatch off the bird feeder in my garden at Manselfield!?
Penclawdd Marsh this morning (High Tide): 41 greylag goose/ 42 canada goose/ 22 shelduck/ 2 gadwall/ 4 mallard/ 50 wigeon/ 200 oystercatcher/ 57 golden plover/ 22 curlew/ 5 knot/ 9 dunlin/ 1 snipe/ 1 Mediterranean gull/ 19 little egret/ 2 great egret/ 6 skylark/ 1 hen harrier/
Margam Park. 36 Canada Geese,Mallard 44,Mandarin (male),Tufted Duck 5,Moorhen 7,Cormorant,Grey Heron2,Little Grebe 2,Snipe 1,Stonechat pair. A female Peregrine over Graig Fawr jousting with a pair of Ravens. 19+Redwings flew from a berry-laden Holly near Grove Wood.With Phil Routliff. ** please note if you drive into the park you may be challenged by the police. We used public transport.
Briton ferry
3 Ravens over my house nice count of 28 house sparrows in my garden ,a mini starling murmuration with 50+ birds over the estate
here are the pictures of yesterday’s Iceland Gull in the marina by the barrage. I would say it’s of the commoner race glaucoides from the raised wing pattern. It might be found again if you look at 2-3 ish as it seemed to be in a load of Herring Gulls who’d dropped in for a wash and brushup which is often a time of day thing rather than a tide thing but who knows for sure.
Today….
Penclawdd Marsh: 103 greylag goose/ 53 canada goose/ 4 mute swan/ 2 shelduck/ 13 pintail/ 2 shoveler/ 1 great egret/ 1 song thrush/ 1 reed bunting/ 1 sparrowhawk/
Yesterday….
Penclawdd Pill: 1 white wagtail/ 3 curlew/ 1 grey heron/ 2 redshank/
Dalton’s Point Penclawdd: 200 Knot/ 200 Dunlin/ 60 BT Godwit/ 70 oystercatcher/ 114 pintail/ 13 wigeon/ 80 teal/ 1 common gull/ 2 great black-backed gull/