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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.
On our shopping trip to Parc Tawe this morning we were treated to a Peregrine hunting and chasing pigeons over High street and Parc Tawe. Superb! But it was unsuccessful on this occasion.
Red kite over llansamlet school 1.30 flying sourh
Dear All
As we are now coming into the breeding season, 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.
Thank you for your assistance in this.
GOS Committee
Singing blackcap in Mumbles this morning
220 black-headed and 10 Mediterranean gulls on Underhill Park, along with a common gull, a lesser blackback and a few herrings.
Neath salt marsh from milland road side
42 Canada geese ,male and female goosander ,2 curlew, 30 redshank 4 little egrets ,2 mute swan ,1 little grebe, 25 carrion crows, .1 buzzard ,2 pied wagtails, 6 mallards 30+ herring gull,14 lesser b b gull,20 black headed gulls
Gnoll park pond 25 mallard,8 tufteds, 85 black headed gulls,4 mute swan ,10 house sparrows ,
Chaffinch,dunnock,robin, blue tit , a few coots and moorhen
Buzzard in Clyne Country Park yesterday morning
Feb 27th midday, 4 great crested grebes fishing off Brandy Cove.
Feb 26th 4pm, male hen harrier quartering gorse and bracken on northeast slope of Cefn Bryn
Neath salt marsh from roundabout gate 60+canada geese, lots of corvids and gulls
Oxwich Point: 1 red-throated diver, 2 kestrels, harbour porpoise
Knab Rock:
1 great crested grebe, 1 shag, 1 cormorant
Several kittiwakes starting to take up residence on what’s left of the pier ledges.. I reckon I more winter and they will be gone..
Trebannws-The Little “Horse” Egret remains in the paddock. Seems to be feeding well,on worms disturbed by its equine companion.
Plenty of Goosander activity on the Tawe this afternoon.Spring in the air !. Nine birds, 4 male and 5 female
Clyne Gardens: singing stock dove by Clyne Castle, green woodpecker, lots of tits now vocal to go with the song thrushes, robins etc
Report from Darryl Spittle of a first winter little gull past Port Talbot Dock on Tuesday
This Med Gull coming into breeding plumage at Bracelet carpark this afternoon.
Male blackcap has been in my garden regularly over winter, has now been joined by female blackcap (directly on Sketty Cross)
Oxwich: 2 kingfishers on the marsh. 28+ cormorant in the bay, along with great crested grebes, common, herring, Mediterranean and black-headed gulls – but no little gulls. Also no sign of great northern divers. 2 had been present regularly up until two days ago.
More Little Gull action at Loughor Bridge sewer outlet, with 7 birds present in better viewing conditions this evening https://photos.app.goo.gl/MgxQNNCDHyB8rSGR9
3 Little Gulls still present south of Loughor Bridge this morning, but drifted off west as the storm eased.
The gales delivered 3 Little Gulls to the sewage outlet on the south side of Loughor Bridge this evening. A rather poor vieo of them here https://photos.app.goo.gl/1stKqNcGkAMKSi4t5
Finally:
Red Kite, Fairwood Common, 2nd Feb., 2022.
Late notification:
Black redstart (male), Pennard Cliffs, 25th January 2022. World’s worst pic attached.
See associated with two stonechats (male, female).
Three choughs on Pennard golf course.
Late notification:
Peregrine Falcon, flying NW over Murton, 20th December, 2021.
Up to 5 Mediterranean Gulls (3 ad wp; one second winter; one immature). Murton; various dates 15th Dec. 2021 to 16th Jan 2022 (pics on roof tops available).
A red kite near Hermon Chapel, Crofty during a lull in Storm Eunice this afternoon.