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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.
Six light bellied brents off the West Cross Inn Mumbles
Coed Fferm Y Garth Farm Woods,Ynystawe Sping like afternoon Goldcrest(2),Treecreeper(1),Nuthatch(5),Chiffchaff(1) feeding on fringe of the woodland. Graet Tit(8),Long Tail Tit(11),Blue Tit(8).Numerous Song Thrush and Blackbird. Canada Goose(30) overhead.
Fairwood Common this morning, north of the western end of Blackhills Lane: skylark singing. Gelli Hir Wood: spring song mistle thrush, song thrush; present blackbird robin moorhen nuthatch great tit blue tit. Garden Brynfield Road: our herring gull pair, having failed last year, may just be starting their breeding routine – washing vegetation in the bird bath. The male has come back from a leg injury last year and now exhibits a minor limp, and he flies with the right leg down.
Walk to Baglan Industrial Estate to the wet area favoured by Snipe. Only 2 found today due to the destruction,yet again of the site. 90 % of the trees and scrub,the reedbedand an area of gorse have ,just recently been razed to the ground; obviously to make the area “more attractive”to would be developers. Nothing more than environmental vandalism i`m afraid. ALittle Egret and two Dippers,one singing at the tidal Afan. With Phil Routliff.
Snipe, Teal, Little Grebe, Reed Bunting, Redwing, Siskin and Red Kite among 31 species in Swansea Vale this morning.
Med Gull among 100+ BH Gulls on Tircanol playing fields and a female Blackcap in a garden in Morriston.
Thank you Alastair-I’ll have to stretch my legs a coule of extra miles to get to the Vale.It’s been weeks since I saw a Snipe or Teal.
Blackpill: 294 oystercatcher, 9 bar-tailed godwit, 1 knot. 36 turnstone off West Cross Inn
Ashleigh Road: 96 oystercatcher, 44 curlew, 100 starling
2 green woodpeckers in the garden at Langland this morning
Margam Moors -5 Cettis`Warblers,4 Stonechats,2 Buzzards & a Great Spotted Woodpecker. Margam Sands-c340 Sanderlings. 3 or 4 Skylarks singing on Morfa Tip. Longlands Lane,Margam-11 Long -tailed Tits. With Phil Routliff.
Nuthatch busy preparing nest hole and site. It will be interesting to see when they will start plastering the entrance.Clydach 18.02.2021
8 Med gulls and mistle thrush on Langland Golf Course this morning
Eleven chough just east of Pobbles this morning, first as 5 followed by 6, then as 9 joined by 2.
Margam Park. Canada Geese 34,Cormorant 3,Tufted Duck 4,Little Grebe 1,Moorhen 10,Teal 1,Red Kite,Buzzard 3,Redwings c60.No sign of Mandarin today. With Phil Routliff.