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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.
Grasshopper Warbler heard reeling in rough grassland of field at the western end of Pennard Cliffs this morning. It seemed to be present for at least an hour.
Saw an Osprey fishing in the low tide shallows at three cliffs on Wednesday 7th April. Made several passes before finally catching.. lovely to watch..
A Swallow mobbing a Sparrow Hawk over Langland golf course this lunchtime.
Ringed Herring Gull ESV has returned to the Clydach area. Seen in the garden this morning. This bird was ringed by The Severn Estuary Gull Group in Gloucestershire on 12.12.2009. Has returned to Clydach for spring/summer/autumn since 2017.Last recorded on 07.06.2020.
Plenty of sand martins over Ffendrod Lake this morning despite the cold weather. Great Crested Grebe pair now nest building in tree clump in the middle of the lake.
Oxwich Marsh: 15 snipe and 1 jack snipe in an area of cut reed. 5 greylag and a couple of Canada geese in the fields / over the marsh, and two teal on the South Pond. My first willow warbler of the year among the numerous chiffchaffs. Nothing much on the sea – albeit the scoter flock was just about visible in the outer bay.
Approximately 25 hirundines above Brynmill Park lake on a cold and snowy morning, mainly Swallows and Sand Martins with one or two House Martins. A Willow Warbler was heard singing. Blackcaps singing in Singleton Park with 2 Stock Doves near the feeders in the Ornamental garden until disturbed by loose dogs.
Martins and Swallows were still there in late afternoon. Also a Coots’ nest on the floating platform, and a Wood Pigeon brooding eggs on its nest close to an ivy-covered tree trunk. Plus c. 15 Tufties, 4 Muscovies, and 2 Canada Geese.
3 snipe, 4 skylark, 2 stonechat, buzzard, chiffchaff, willow warbler, Clyne Common 4th April 2021
Mewslade to Ram Grove on the south Gower coast.
Mewslade: red-throated diver sat on sea.
Kestrel over Mewslade Valley, in Ram Grove and at Red Chamber
4 wheatears along the stretch of coast, numerous chiffchaffs. and a swallow the only other obvious migrant..
Groups of 23 and 4 common scoter west.
Good numbers of gannet offshore.
Chough regularly seen / heard
2 Canada geese over Mumbles just after dawn.
Quiet walk from Limeslade to Caswell. 2 grey seal off Limeslade and a couple more off Snaple Point, Langland. A green woodpecker calling from the golf course.
Plenty of greenfinch, goldfinch and linnet, and a few stonechat on the cliffs, with a singing blackcap in the scrub on the Langland Point side of the golf course. Rock pipit singing at Snaple Point.
Flock of up to 9 Choughs at Pennard East Cliff yesterday. A few Chiffchaffs and Stonechats also singing.
Fenrod lake usuall suspects this evening 20 mute swan several were last years young,18+ Canada geese about ten tufteds two pochard one male,mallards,coot moorhen ,and a lovely summer plumage great crested grebe at nant fenrod in Swansea vale a pair of mute swan and a pair of Canada geese having a territorial dispute