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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.
Penllegare Valley Park. Gadwall 4 (3 drakes), Greylag 1, Canada Goose 2, Mallard 12 plus broods of one and five, Little Grebe 1, Willow Warbler 1.
Loughor Bridge on the run up to HT. Whimbrel 22, Bar t Godwit 5, Shelduck 9, Gadwall 2, Curlew 1, Common Sandpiper 1, Greylag 4.
37+ species seen around Swansea Vale/LNR this morning. Highlights included Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler and Common Sandpiper.
Saw my first newly fledged Blackbirds yesterday when a male brought 2 juveniles into my garden.
2 Common Scoter and a Whimbrel seen at Bracelet Bay this evening.
Mynydd Carn Llechart. Skylark(at least six pairs),Meadow Pipit,Stonechat(1 male),Red Kite (2),Buzzard (2),Reed Bunting(1 male),Pied Wagtail(2) and a calling Cuckoo
Nice male Black cap at Cwm Ivy on Sunday and a few Shell ducks out on the marsh, plenty of Oyster catchers as usual.
Not something you see every day anymore unfortunately.. A nice friendly song thrush at Bracelet Bay this morning..
Fendrod Lake this morning had a Gadwall (unusual for this site) and a Ring-necked Parakeet.
I have seen a pair of Gadwall on the lower lake at Penllergare. They have been there all week at least.
Limeslade to Rotherslade this morning: female Wheatear and Whitethroat singing well. A dozen or so immature gulls circling over a seal which was eating a large fish and maybe discarding a few scraps.
4 Whimbrel flying eastwards along Pennard Cliffs this afternoon, calling as they went by.
I also had my first Adder of the year in the garden today, a large male.
2 reeling Grasshopper Warblers at Swansea Vale this morning.