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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.
lovely icy walk today up above Dyffryn Cellwyn on the upper neath valley ridge ….(where we did our late winter field trip – walters arena). 2 Willow Tits calling and fighting so would think ?edge of 2 territory’s ….(which incidentally was same as 3 years ago boundary’s… Just pleased they are still up there.Rest of sites not checked. Also 6- family and 2 assorted pair and 5- family ( 3 vocal types)- 13 Crossbill, 12 Redpoll and 10 Siskin. Plus the tailless Buzzard still there looks like a giant owl when it flies through treetops quite old this bird now.… Read more »
Lots of woodland birds at Pwll Du head this afternoon including nuthatch, greenfinch, bullfinch, coal tit, chaffinch, great tit and song thrush. Also a single golden plover, 6 cormorant and 2 shag on the cliffs. 2 raven mobbing a kestrel at Hunts Farm
2 Pale-bellied Brents with 426 Dark-bellies at Wernffrwd this afternoon. Also a very close views of a female Merlin at Dalton’s Point and a Blackcap in the garden (Gorseinon).
Excellent shorebird diversity in the gutter at Penclawdd Marsh this evening.
2 Lapwing, 1 Green Sandpiper, 4 Greenshank, 8 Golden Plover, 1 Grey Plover, and 1 Little Ringed Plover were the highlights (11 species in total). Also a Kingfisher and Merlin.
Correction** Common Ringed Plover, not Little Ringed.
Lots of Redwing at Glyncollen woods also large amounts of Chaffinch.
The cold weather bringing birds into the garden this morning in Langland. Redwing, blackcap, song thrush, chaffinch, wren, starling and all the tit family. Together with the usual blackbird, dunnock, wood pigeon, magpie and robin.
Lone Common Sandpiper feeding along Bishopston pill at Pwll Du beach (3pm 14/12/22)… Several pairs of Fieldfare up on Mynydd y Gwair & Upper Lliw (late afternoon 15/12/22)
Large flocks of thrushes around Oystermouth Cemetry this afternoon including 50 redwing. Best of the rest were a single blackcap, green woodpecker, raven, goldcrest and three jay.
A flock of 11 Lapwing flew over Langland golf course at 11.00 this morning. Three further singletons later in the morning. Also four Golden plover on the course and a flock of a dozen or so Redwing. A brought in by the hard frost.
Langland: blackcap (male) and firecrest (male) this morning among the commoner garden birds. Good passage of firecrest earlier in the year, but assume this one is now a winterer.
Neath town this morning a grey wagtail walking between treats cafe and Iceland shop feeding , oblivious Of the passing people
Jack Snipe at Kenfig Yesterday.
28 Oystercatchers, c. 20 Sanderlings, and some Herring Gulls on Swansea Beach outside Civic Centre at lunchtime today.
2 Curlew at the Afon river mouth Port Talbot.
Salthouse Point/Crofty today. Shoveller (50+), Pintail, Wigeon, Redshank, Teal, Shellduck, Curlew, Oystercatchers, Sanderling, Dunlin, 1 Godwit, Reed Buntings, Stonechats, Starlings, 1 Great Crested Grebe, Brent Geese (200+) flew into Crofty accompanied by 6 Spoonbills.
A different individual Common Gull in the garden(Clydach) this morning.
A Fieldfare at the Wern, Llanmorlais today.
Dec12 1100 Penclawdd promenade- 6 spoonbills having a day off from performing at the Wetlands Centre. 2 common snipe feeding at the edge of the creek opposite the chip shop.
Oxwich Marsh 11/12: jack snipe, 2 chiffchaff
12/12. out of area, but a yellow-browed warbler ringed at Kenfig this morning.
This Common Gull waswith a couple of Black-headed and Herring Gulls in my garden(Clydach) this morning.I usually get winter records of this species in cold weather.
Dec 10th 36 dark-bellied brent geese at Porteynon beach. Jack snipe flushed from long grass next to gorse bank near Horton – swift, low, silent loop down to coastal path and plopped back down very close to where it rose.
Friday 9th Dec before 0700: tawny owls duetting in Brynfield Road.
9th Dec 96 dunlin, 5 ringed plover, 7 redshank, 1 turnstone and 1 oystercatcher on muddy shore below Tawe Lock. If only wader counting were always so easy!
8th Dec Oxwich Bay, 3 great crested grebes, 200 scoter in three groups, 2 ravens feeding on small seal carcase