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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.
Freedown (n side of cefn bryn) my first willow warbler of the year.
Sat 2nd Apl, Lily Ponds, Dunvant. Grey and pied wagtail walking on the lily pads; male gadwall in eclipse; and sparrowhawk passing over.
approx 320 Golden Plover by Wernffrwd church on this am high tide . many in breeding plumage in good light looked stunning . young merlin sat on a post at waters edge , 36 Redshank , 76 shelduck , 32 curlew .
4 LR plover were together on y’days high tide further up stream
Caswell to Langland: 4 wheatear at Snaple Point and a further one further west. Grey seal.
Yesterday morning at Pal y Cwrt lots of activity, 10+ Wheatear, 6+ Skylark 8+ Meadow Pipit.
A noticeable increase in singing Blackcap on the Clydach/Glais circular walk.
Yesterday I walked Craig Ynysarwed and heard/saw many blackcaps.
20 Chough flew over Rhossili Down this evening at Sunset, flying towards worm’s head. I have not seen so many together before so was a real delight to see.
Fantastic to see at least 5 yellowhammers on Frog Moor this morning around sunrise, with at least 3 of them singing. Also 1 fieldfare and 1 snipe.
Rhossili Down this morning: my first willow warbler. Cliff knife-edge west of Mewslade popular with climbers (Yellow Wall?): male wheatear. Female kestrel standing on cliff near Devil’s Truck.
3 spoonbills dalton’s point
ESV returns for another season !. Ringed at Hempsted,Gloucestershire on 12/12/09 first seen at Clydach on 27.04.2017 after no reports for over six years. Has been recorded annually at Clydach since 2017.First sighting since July 2021.
Some stunning Siskin in my Clydach garden this morning and the Dippers feeding chicks at a nesting site on the Tawe.
Black redstart (male) at Port Talbot Docks today
Report from Darryl Spittle
Maybe not rare, but a Siskin was feeding on my feeders in Murton this lunchtime.
This evening: In the area of common just north west of Gelli-hir woods a group of 5 Redwings flew over towards Gelli-hir woods. In the same area there were 12 pied wagtails gathered on some telephone wires chattering away. Good numbers of birds singing in the woods.
Pant y Sais this morning 2 Greylags, 2Mandarin M/F, 1 Reed Bunting, 1 Dunnock, 2 Buzzard, 4 LTT, 2 GSW, Jay and Treecreeper.
5 Wheatears (4m, 1f) seen on walk from Mewslade to Rhossil. Great Northern Diver in bay next to causeway.
Blackcap pair in Mewslade valley. Fulmars on usual nesting site.
Cefn Bryn summit 28 March 22 a.m.
Lots of Skylarks, Reed Bunting (m and f, Stonechat ( m and f), Wheater, several rooks, heron overhead.
26 March: A black Redstart has been reported having been seen in garden in Penmaen. The bird was present for a good length of time before flying off into a neighbour’s garden to the west.
Female Hen Harrier hunting open moorland below Penlle’r Castel along the Gower Way..(The Male soaring at height)…
Ilston Valley: blackcap (singing), numerous chiffchaff, grey wagtail, siskin, buzzard.
Dead brown hare by Fairwood Airport
Afternoon walk in the sun along the coastal path between Port Eynon and Long Hole Cave today.
Plenty of stonechats, especially at Overton Mere, also several chiffchaffs singing in the same area, one spotted.
Near to Long Hole cave two merlin were seemingly defending their tor from crows.
Two 40+ flocks of oystercatchers were flying out at sea, heading east.
Snow bunting on Cefn Bryn today. By the carpark on the summit. Oblivious to people and their dogs apparently.
Drake Gargney amongst the Mallard on the Tawe by the Valley golf course.