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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.
Coed darcy house landarcy
17 house martins nests under the office roof don’t know how many are occupied plenty of martins about some nest still being built
Spotted Flycatcher feeding over pond today. Millwood Lodge.
Found dead Siskin in garden with ring id. AKD0953.No obvious cause of death.
Ringed as a young bird at Oxwich in June 2019 Jon.
If you could formally report here: https://app.bto.org/euring/lang/pages/rings.jsp it will ensure all details are captured by the BTO.
Thank you
Owain
Cwm Clydach lower end of RSPB reserve. Spotted Flycatcher(2). North of Pont Llechart Spotted Flycatcher(4),Pied Flycatcher(8),Redstart(2).Plenty of the commoner species Chiffchaff,Willow Warbler,Blackcap,Song Thrush,Blackbird etc
Parc le Breos / Park Wood: spotted flycatcher on the track edge south of Green Cwm Cottage at SS 53256 90103, cuckoo on the edge of Cefn Bryn near Long Oaks. Marsh tit the best of the rest.
Mill Wood early AM: marsh tit (2) the only real highlight from walking all of the tracks. The spotted flycatchers and wood warbler of last week appear to have moved on.
Latest news from Gower Ringing Group is here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-14-may-2021-an-itinerant-finch-and-a-returning-tit/
Cuckoo prolonged calling this evening at Fairwood Common and seen on overhead wires, dropping down to catch food (looked like a large caterpillar) then returning to wires to eat.
Cuckoo calling last night in Clyne Valley at around 11 p.m.
Oxwich Marsh: grasshopper warbler reeling, 41 siskins. 6 greylags over marsh
Cwm Clydach(13.05.2021).Quick walk from RSPB car park up to Glyn Coch Farm(left side of river) Spotted Flycatcher(7),Grey Wagtail(5)Dipper(1 darting up and down the river) Robin and Wren everywhere !.Nuthatch at nesting site at two locations.Plenty of Blackcap including family parties of several fledglings.
Rhyslyn Afan valley cuckoo seen and heard,buzzards, usual warblers and songbirds
Last Friday halfway down a cliff I saw five or six warblers (probably chiffchaff, but some with pale legs, and one ringed bird) eating gorse flowers — picking them off, rolling them in the bill, and dropping them. Is that common behaviour?
I saw this with another chiffchaff yesterday (Wed). I think they are eating the gorse elaiosomes.