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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.
This handsome beast seen at Mewslade. Lots of chiffchaffs around. First blackcap of the season seen in gorse at valley floor. Lots of stonechats and wrens singing. Pair of kestrels seen over Fall Bay. Small number of common scoter still present off Rhossili.
Port Eynon to Longhole Cliff 02/04.
2 shelduck and a female pintail on the sea west of Overton, and my first wheatear of the year, a female, at Longhole Cliff
Stonechats singing at Overton and Longhole Cliff, a couple of shag off Sedger’s Bank and chough commuting over Port Eynon.
Record shots through the window of the black redstart in my garden this morning… middle of West Cross… i was very surprised.!!
Send him up the road, please.
Rhossili and Mewslade this morning: 4 swallows (3 at Kitchen Corner and 1 at Middleton Village), yellowhammer (singing male and a second bird calling nearby) on the west side of Mewslade, obvious influx of chiffchaffs with 5-6 singing in the Mewslade Valley and a few others in scattered scrub on the cliff top. Herring gulls nest building on Devil’s Truck. Numerous stonechats including several singing birds (3 territories above Fall Bay). Chough (2-3) regularly seen. A few shag and fulmar in the inshore waters, and small numbers of common scoter close in off Kitchen Corner. Red kite and kestrel over… Read more »
Kittiwake nesting shelves almost empty this morning at 0730. Just two birds on a shelf and five on the water near by. In contrast to yesterday when there were over 100 birds on the shelves. Change of weather perhaps.
A total of 28 Greylag geese at Oxwich today.
My first swallow this year! Flew north over the field behind my garden in Manselfield at 14.10
5 Sand Martin, 3 Swallow and 8+ singing Chiffchaff during a late afternoon walk around Swansea Vale today.
2 Greenland Brent Geese Knabb Rock Saturday 27th 10.30am
I like Alun’s stonechat. This afternoon I heard greenfinch at Manselfield Green and another in Picket Mead Road.
..A singing Blackcap has joined the Chiffchaff in the copse behind the Murton Health Centre. Spring nudges closer by the day!
Cracking male stonechat in Bracelet Bay this morning…. First time ive seen or heard one singing