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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 least seven Swift over Bro Abertawe/Swansea Vale in the heavy rain between 08.00 and 09.00 hrs.
Read about Colin Baker’s study of dippers on the River Afan in this new blog post: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/recapture-of-adults-for-survival-neath-port-talbot-dippers/
Mumbles Hill this morning four singing Black caps, a Gannet off Bracelet, 5 Whitethroats between Limeslade and Rotherslade, one on a nest territory. Several Green and Gold finches.
Pantysais late morning: a pair of Red Kite, a pair of Ravens, Cettis Warbler and Willow Warbler singing.
My first Swift of the year over West Crossb more will probably come in on this storm, 7 Cygnets on Singleton Boating Lake. Newly fledged Robin at Limeslade.
First Lesser Whitethroat of the year calling on Pennard Cliffs this morning.
Park Woods / Parc le Breos this morning: marsh tit provisioning active nest, 3 singing stock doves, a nesting starling in a woodpecker hole, juvenile blackbird and song thrush, grey wagtail in two locations on the stream down to Parkmill, 2 brown hares on the edge of the farmland above Cathole, and lots of other nice things including bufinches, a couple of siskin, singing treecreepers, blackcaps, chiffchaff and mistle thrush. Also the inevitable flyover groups of greylags that seem to be everywhere on Gower now.
5th May. Clyne valley 4.30pm, dipper whizzing down stream.
I read with interest about dewi Lewis the ringed herring gull in his garden ,in 2013 I had a herring gull BPS in my garden in Briton ferry 22nd April till 14th December it was ringed at Gloucester land fill site in
2007 as an adult
Greenfinch seen at Limeslade. I notice it has been ringed but can’t make out the number. Usual Stonechats, Whitethroats, Dunnocks, Goldfinch and Wrens.
4th May 9am rumpus in field behind house in Bishopston as several rooks and magpies – and a fleeting guest appearance from a herring gull – mobbed a fox sitting next to an upturned rook’s nest on the ground. Two of four nests in this new satellite colony wrecked by yesterday’s gale. Remaining two still occupied, but not much long term hope for this satellite as the ash tree is dying. I wonder how many other rooks missing nests after yesterday. Also, most rookeries I know are in ash trees (though Landimore’s is in oaks). It will be interesting to… Read more »
We went to the cliffs opposite Pilton Green on Sunday. We saw: a red kite; a peregrine falcon; a kestrel; what looked like a few bramblings; some swallows; yellow legged gulls; some robins; and what we think was a shank…
Latest news from Gower Ringing Group is now here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-1-may-2021-a-return-to-action/