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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 afternoon.
Bwlchymynydd foreshore car park. Black t Godwit 337, Ruff 2, Pintail 62,
Teal 219, Common Sand 1, Greenshank 1, Shelduck 22, Bar t Godwit 3, Little Egret 42.
South of Loughor Bridge. Black t Godwit 329, Bar t Godwit 4, Curlew 34, Greenshank 4, Dunlin 1.
Whiteford: waders included 2 curlew sandpiper
Oxwich: 2 tree pipit, garden warbler, 40+ blackcap, 2 sparrowhawk, goshawk, steady passage of grey wagtail on 10/09
Pwll Du head: garden warbler, 2 marsh tit
Ilston: kingfisher
10 September Bishopston Valley: Kingfisher, spotted flycatcher, female grey wagtail
11 September: Rhossili 21 chough close to carpark. 10 common sandpiper on causeway
to Worms Head.
At Wernfrwdd at high tide this morning 3 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine, 2 Great white Egret,100+Greylag.
This morning at Castell Du. Greenshank 5, Swallow 85, Little Egret 4 Common Sandpiper 1, “Oxymoron” Teal 1 (an apparently un-ringed drake Ringed Teal).
This afternoon.
Off Burry Pill, Great crested Grebe 50.
Llanrhidian Marsh. Osprey 1 on a post, later flew off towards Whiteford, Greylag 253, Stonechat 10, Whinchat 6, Barn Owl 1, hunting in daylight so presumably still has young somewhere.
Neath saltmarsh 70+ Canada geese
The quays to the neath river mouth
700 est oyster catchers,60+curlew,12 redshank,4 bar t godwit,800+ black h gulls,6 mallard,1 common sandpiper,1 male wheatear,20 little egrets on the boat yard,roost,26 Canada geese flying East
07.30 this morning five gannets circling over a large school of dolphins off Bracelet Bay.
This afternoon.
Bwlchymynydd foreshore car park.
Black t Godwit 55, Knot 2, Pintail 53, Mallard 98, Little Egret 20
South of Loughor Bridge.
Black t Godwit 122, Ruff 1, Redshank 19, Dunlin 12, Greenshank 1.
Penclawdd.
Redshank 87, Greenshank 2.
Dalton’s Point.
Wigeon 40, Pintail 4, Great white Egret 1, Teal 151, Osprey 1, later seen on post on Llanrhidian Marsh and fishing, not very successfully, over Leason Pill.
Blackpill evening 6 Sandwich Terns
Blackpill this morning 10 Little Egret
The quays Briton ferry to river mouth.
1 common sandpiper, kingfisher,22 redshank,38 curlew, 18 little egret, 8 heron, 600+oyster catcher,y800+ black headed gulls a few swallows and a wheatear
Yesterday at Blackpill
Med Gull adult white 39HA right leg.
Med Gull prob adult, but primaries not fully grown so can’t see from pic, green ALAJ left leg.
Young Carrion Crow with mostly white primaries, secondaries and coverts. Mercifully the tips are black which might help with wear.
Crymlyn Bog this evening: a large group of about 150 swallows and house martins feeding overhead. From sound it seems that they were mostly swallows.
Mewslade in am – 1 Hobby flew east, warblers moving through till 11 when suddenly went quiet – 5 Whitethroat, 8 Blackcap, 10 Chiffchaff , 2 Willow warbler (There was 15 wilwa here and a Whinchat a couple days ago) 1 Spotted Flycatcher. 1 Tree Pipit flew over. 2 Green Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk, 20 Swallow. 5 Chough in a field by Middleton. Port Eynon – 105 Med Gulls ( 65- 2 days ago) – all hidden in rocks from wind so not sure if any colour ringed (increase of juv/1st winters). A green ringed adult Med Gull RV7T here 2 days… Read more »
Saltmarsh just south of Loughor: 2 juvenile Dunlins, 1 juvenile Curlew Sandpiper, 6 Wigeon and 1 Kingfisher.
Loughor foreshore on a falling tide:
1 Whimbrel, 1 Common sandpiper and 1 juvenile ruff.
Oxwich Marsh: 2 grasshopper warblers, garden warbler
Clyne Common: peregrine
Langland: humming bird hawk moth
20+ house martins flying high and headed due south over our Bishopston garden just now. Bon voyage!
Oxwich Marsh: continued tree pipit passage (10+) birds by 07:30. Grey wagtails also moving. 4 grasshopper warbler, garden warbler. Few other migrants.
Kingfisher seen from a passing White Swan pedalo on Singleton Park boating lake
Whiteford Burrows: 3 ospreys, marsh harrier (per Neil Edwards)
Oxwich Marsh yesterday AM: 7+ tree pipit, yellow wagtail, light passage of grey wagtail, kestrel
Weobley sat am as the tide dropped , c.180 Ringed Plover , c.80 Dunlin , 26 cormorant , 65 Oyc, Green sand and Snipe . 6 GBB gull , 60 Herring. Tidy post breeding flock of c. 165 linnet , 30 Med pip , 40 goldfinch , 12 reed bunting . 20 Mistle thrush flying from Poplars opp the castle was a nice site . single Yellow wag with around 12 pied on the marsh . At Whiteford this am , 265 Ringed plover , 65 Dunlin , 8! Knot , 12 Sanderling , 2 Redshank , 4 San tern… Read more »
Barry Stewart reports: Osprey flying down Burry Inlet from Loughor Bridge at 11.00 Sunday.
Plus Loughor foreshore: Curlew Sand, Ruff, LRP, 291 Blackwits, Barwit, Common Sand, 53 L Egret, GW Egret, 20 Pintail.
Oxwich Marsh: redstart (young male), tree pipit (1), kingfisher (2), reed warbler (27), sedge warbler (8), blackcap (23)