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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.
After a very long absence, welcome to 2 female Greenfinches on my seed feeder this morning. (Upper Killay)
50+ Sand Martin at their traditional nesting bank at Pontardawe this afternoon. A spectacular sight over a still flowing Tawe.
Pied Flycatcher (male) in trees above Penllegaer Lower Lake this morning.
Fulmar flying west from Limeslade this morning at 0800
Oxwich Marsh: reed warbler.
Oxwich Bay: 3 Sandwich tern, mute swan
9th April c80 scoter middle Oxwich Bay, swimming in circles, flying then settling, breaking up into small groups and reforming, very restless. 3 or 4 porpoise feeding Three Cliffs Bay.
10th April wheatear Pwlldu Head,
11th April 6 sandwich tern diving for fish in Fall Bay
Worms Head (with Tim Sykes): 6-8 red-throated divers, 25 common scoter, c. 20 Sandwich terns, 200+ Manx shearwater, 30+ kittiwake, smalll flocks of guillemot and razorbill, a few gannets and shag, singing wheatear, 3-4 harbour porpoise, several grey seals. Most birds in the lee of the headland.
148 Kittiwakes on and around the pier this morning and 25 Turnstones on the old lifeboat slip.
Probably 4 or 5 swallows over East Cliff Pennard this morning. Large hailstones this afternoon must have made life tough for them. (Also an otter just offshore.)
Upper Killay- – Sat10th April — Lesser Redpoll in my garden – good view & calling — near my bird feeders
Pobbles / Southgate Cliff (with Richard Dann): tree pipit, c. 24 Sandwich terns (three groups of 4-14) – all west, c. 25 common scoter, porpoise, house martin, wheatear (male)
yesterday, 8th, 30 Bar-tailed Godwit at Blackpill at HT. Female Reed Bunting photographed at pool near sports field at Port Tennant bore a ring. Reported to Euring but partial number is AK0113__ in case it is a local ringer.
Hi Ian. The ring series is AKD and was used at Oxwich Marsh in October 2018. Unfortunately I can’t work out which specific bird it is based on what you have been able to see. Thanks you for posting.