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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.
Interesting comparison of the same Med gulls plumage change.. pictures are 6 weeks apart….
Polish Med Gull PHAN was still at Bracelet Bay yesterday
ringed May 2019 as an adult in WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE, POLAND. was seen in Bracelet July 2019 and has only been seen there since except for a small excursion across the border to Llanelli last September…..
I watched a buzzard catch an eel in the stream in my garden over the weekend. The buzzard was perched in a tree above the stream then flew down into the stream to catch the eel. The water is around 18″-24″ inches deep at that point so there was quite a bit of splashing around before it flew up onto the bank to eat its’ prey. A proper osprey type catch. It was later joined by another, immature, buzzard but wasn’t interested in sharing. I’ve tried searching for this type of behaviour in buzzards but it seems unusual. Has anyone… Read more »
More than 15 Choughs outside the NCI lookout at Worms Head this morning. Only one had rings but too active in the blustery wind to observe colour.
Nice pair of stonechats setting up territory in Bracelet Bay this afternoon
Three Cliffs this morning: 2 raven (1 rolling frequently), 3 chough, 1 f kestrel, 4 rock pipit, 4 (or more) ringed plover, 2 sanderling, 1 little egret below castle.
Also Sunday, on East Cliff, a flock of 12 greenfinch, plus 4 or 5 lone greenfinch calling (buzzing? drilling?) — after a winter of rarely seeing even one.
On my local walk today I saw a Long tailed tit nest building in brambles. The nest looked about half finished. There were also the usual Buzzards and tit species about, several Robins and I heard a Green woodpecker.
Oxwich river mouth, lone grey plover with a ringed plover. 4 siskin in Nicholaston woods and water rail calling from reeds. 3-4pm
8th March 21
Two Great Crested Grebes and a Cormorant at Knab Rock. 60 plus Kittiwakes on the old lifeboat station. 07.30 Monday.
Any thoughts on the parentage of this duck that was amongst the Mallards on the canal in Clydach.It seemed far more ‘nervous’ than the locals.
My guess would be this is a male tufted duck x pintail
Thank you Owain Gabb.I had the same feeling initially. The head struck me as a pintail but I expected a pintail tail. Legs are yellow(ish). It was trying to pair off with a female mallard today causing quite a stir.Apparently was on Fendrod lake early last year. Either MallardxTufted Duck or PintailxTufted Duck were considered then.
Yesterday, from Southgate Westcliff late morning: approx 20 to 30 very dark (probably black) medium sized birds in a flock on the sea. First thought was Common Scoter, but only had my mini-binoculars so could not verify. Any other similar sightings?
4 Chough seen today on the headland at Seven Slades, near Pwll Du around Midday.