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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.
At Llanrhidian marsh today the dark Female Hen harrier was still present with 2 other ringtails seen over the day , one in am and other pm. The dark female tends to show 11- 2pm mostly 7x yesterday, 4 times today. Still not got underwing shot
Other birds seen include 1 Barn Owl – out from 4.30pm , 3 Green Sand , 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Peregrine, 2 Red Kite , 90 lapwing , 300 Golden Plover, 10 Stonechat
A couple of record shots of the Yellow Wagtail at Castell Du.
This morning south of Loughor Bridge at HT
Little Egret 21, Wigeon 72, Oystercatcher 262 including an ashy grey amelanistic bird, Ruff 1, Curlew 13.
Snow bunting (2) at Whiteford
Report via Paul Stephens on Twitter. Photographed
Black redstart (female). Murton – just now. A nice surprise to see this in my mum’s garden when getting back from walking the collie…..
This afternoon.
Broughton Bay.
Common Scoter 181, Brent Goose 1, Oystercatcher 23, Swallow 1 in off, Goldcrest 2
Wernffrwd.
GW Egret 1, Green Sandpiper 1, Merlin 1, a nice male perched then chasing Linnets.
Dalton’s Point.
Bl t Godwit 202, Greenshank 5, Dunlin 759, Knot 29.
Penclawdd.
Little Grebe 1 on the pill.
Langland (Southward Lane) 3 firecrest, 3 goldcrest. Two of the firecrests captured and ringed. Third unringed bird noted.
Pale morph buzzard at Weobley this afternoon:
Castell Du this morning. Little Grebe 1, Greenshank 1, Black tailed Godwit 1, Lapwing 10, Gadwall 6, Meadow Pipit 28, Pied Wagtail 28, Yellow Wagtail 1, survived the attentions of the Sparrowhawk and still present. A grey-brown bird with whitish underpart ground colour with lemon wash on the undertail and on the rear flank on the rhs. Although the lores look dark there is a sub ocular pale patch within the dark ear covert area. Because of the length of the grass the hind claw could not be seen. Not heard to call (but at my age I probably wouldn’t… Read more »
Port Eynon this afternoon.
Gannet 8, Razorbill 2, Kittiwake 26, Common Scoter 4, Guillemot 29 all down channel. On the foreshore/rocks Med Gull 49, Purple Sandpiper 1, Sanderling 2.
Wernffrwd.
Greylag 105, GW Egret 2
Briton ferry,dusk
Constant stream of herring gulls in loose flocks est. 3to 400 heading toward the river neath estuary
Castell Du this morning.
Greendshank 1, Pied Wagtail 22, Lapwing 9, H Gull 99, LBB Gull 22, Little Grebe 1, Sparrowhawk 1 juv male. Plus Yellow Wagtail . The latter flushed by the Sparrowhawk before I could get a good look at it and with the windy conditions no call was heard. Not relocated.
Ruff at Neath River mouth (per Dave Carrington)
This afternoon.
Penclawdd. Redshank 49, Greenshank 1, Teal 6, Black-tailed Godwit 4, Common Sandpiper 1.
Dalton’s Point. Dunlin 428, Pintail 1311.
Llanrhidian. Hen Harrier 2 ringtails.
Firecrest (sex indeterminate) in holly on Southward Lane, Langland
i caught and ringed a Pallas’s Warbler in my garden on Pennard cliffs earlier this morning.
At Middleton farm today late morning a Pallas warbler showed twice in the trees above the road outside the entrance to the farm and was lost in the back of Riverside. It was mostly high in the canopy and fortunately the wind had dropped by this point. I stayed 3 hours and did not see it again but bird activity dropped and the 4 Blackcaps , 2 Chiffchaffs had become hard to see by then. Decent influx to Mewslade valley compared to previous day with 30 Goldcrest, 3 Blackcap, 20 Blackbirds ,3 Redwing, 2 Chiffchaff. With 2 Swallow, 30 Siskin… Read more »
Male Sparrowhawk on our bird feeder.. again!
At Middleton Farm this afternoon: 1 Yellow Browed Warbler which showed quite well, 2 pairs of Blackcaps and a female Bullfinch. 1 Dartford Warbler near to Pilton Green. Also 100s of Fieldfares and some Redwings overhead near to Scurlage.
At llanrhidian the dark female Hen Harrier was hunting on and off from 2 till late afternoon twice close to the marsh road.. Also a Barn Owl was hunting from 4pm onwards in the same area. Also Merlin, Peregrine, Red Kite, 200 Golden Plover Greenshank, Green Sandpiper in the area.
Fenrod lake afternoon
26 mute swan 48 Canada geese, 100+ black headed gull,135 herring gull 12+ moorhen 12 tufteds, a great crested grebe,a female goosander,others not counted coots,.mallards, a bar headed goose,a moscovy duck ,and some mixed up ducks and geese hybrids
this morning 25 wood pigeons over Briton ferry
Rhossili field trip today, twelve members were treated to a great walk, led by Ed Hunter who found us the Dartford Warbler, as promised!
We saw 36 species, listed below and most of all we enjoyed good birding company in good weather.
Dartford Warbler, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Pied Wagtail, Magpie, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Raven, Chough (8), Meadow Pipit, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Goldcrest, Chiff Chaff, Herring Gull, Great Black Backed Gull, Blackbird, Starling, Song Thrush, Fieldfare, Redwing, Linnet, Wren, Robin, Stonechat, Blackcap, Tree Creeper, Blue Tit, Collared Dove, Brent Goose (13), Kestrel, Red Kite, Buzzard and Sparrow Hawk.
Some of the lovely Chough we saw today
This morning in Tycoch, Swansea a good movement of winter thrushes between 8.30 and 9am. I guesstimated 150 Fieldfare and 650 Redwing sized birds almost entirely heading NEish.
Moving in groups of 30-50 mostly.
2 Chough, a Fieldfare and a Dartford Warbler at Mewslade this morning. 3 Blackcaps and a Sparrowhawk at Middleton farm. This afternoon at Weobley track 1 Whinchat, 1 ring tailed Hen Harrier, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Kestrel, 2 Buzzards, 5 Ravens, flock of golden plover c. 50 and a Reed bunting with a white forehead