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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.
Oxwitch.
In the bay Guillemot 3, Gannet 4
In the NNR Willow Warbler 3 in song local to the hide. Also, inside the entrance to the hide a nest of Tree Bumblebee, Bombus hypnorum, and along the boardwalk a small rhododendron covered in male Early nesting bumblebees, Bombus pratorum plus a few workers and a few Common carders, Bombus pascuorum. Also what appeared to be a Queen Large garden bumblebee, Bombus ruderatus. Unfortunately I did not have my collection gear with me to confirm.
Wernffrwd. Two Wheatears on the salt marsh.
Mill Wood: fully grown nestling raven in pine with adult in attendance. A fox cub nearby. A whitethroat singing from a patch of willow next to a recently-created (NRW) pond was unexpected. Also singing stock dove, and more bullfinches than on recent visits.
South of Loughor Bridge on the run up to HT. Oystercatcher 32, of which 14 were first summer birds, Canada Goose 10, Shelduck 8, GC Grebe 2.
Castell Du this evening Canada Goose 4, Little Egret 1, Sparrowhawk 1
It’s not everyday you get Zebra Finch in the garden ! These two dropped in this evening much to the annoyance of the nesting Blue Tits.Clydach 24.05.2021
Hi Dewi. Please do send the record to the county recorder, Rob Taylor (details on contact us page). We don’t get many exotica!
I’ll make sure I do that Owain.Exotica is not good for my cardiac health.At first I thought they were sparrows with make-up.
Cefn Bryn this evening: heron, skylarks, meadow pipit, stonechats, wheatear and my first swift(s) of the year.
Cwm Clydach Reserve 24.05.2021. A family flock of Treecreeper(2 adults and 4 juvenile) and Nuthatch chicks keen to be fed.
Castell Du this evening
Canada Goose 15, Mallard 21, all drakes, a bachelor party! Shelduck 4, Wheatear 2, Sand Martin 30
Isolated Cwm Tawe area. Goosander at nesting site.Chicks are ready to depart but high water levels and fast flow mean its a risky business today.Unfortunately did not have a long lense.
Parc le Breos: spotted flycatcher (in two locations including on the woodland edge opposite the Neolithic burial chamber), stock dove (3), brown hare (2), marsh tit.
21 May, Middle head
We saw some rock pipits and a flock of around 6 ruddy turnstones.
Port Eynon
Dunlin 21 including a flock of 16 that flew off the beach and high north, presumably to the Burry, Sanderling 7, Ringed Plover 2, Whimbrel 2, Turnstone 1. Guillemot 7, one in the bay, the rest down channel, Fulmar Petrel 11, Gannet 6, Manx Shearwater 10, all down channel, Shag 2 on the rocks
Clydach.Ten days ago these were noisy chicks in a nesting cavity.Today they are a noisy presence in the back garden.Several family flocks of parents and 3-5 chicks are around the village now.