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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.
Mumbles Pier (HW on 01/01): 181 dunlin, 61 turnstone, 9 redshank
Blackpill approaching high tide earlier today – 530 Oystercatcher, 25 ringed plover and 1 dunlin. Then 95 Oystercatcher, 15 Curlew, 20 common gull, 1 Mute Swan, 1 Mistle Thrush and 120 Starling on Ashleigh Rd/Sketty Lane Playing Fields
11.30 this morning, 51 Oystercatchers, 8 Curlew and a Mute Swan on the Ashleigh Rd Playing fields.
Male tawny owl heard at dusk for the last few nights – behind north side of Dillwyn Road at Sketty Cross.
High tide at Blackpill at 11.30 this morning – 450 Oystercatcher and 24 Ringed Plover. Subsequently there were at least 85 Oystercatcher, 30 Curlew, 90 Starling, 1 Mute Swan, 7 Common Gull, 3 Mistle Thrush and 24 Redwing on the Ashleigh/Sketty Lane Playing Fields, although the birds were moving around a lot’ and there may have been some interchange with the Oystercatcher flock at Blackpill….
Counts from Crofty over 27-28th included 429 Dark-bellied Brent, 1 Pale-bellied Brent, 6 Spoonbills, 161 Shelduck, 142 Shoveler, 148 Wigeon, 335 Teal & 627 Pintail
Squally day 29th Dec. Flushed a snipe at Paviland Manor Farm. One skylark, one raven; and on the rocks at west end of Port Eynon the usual oystercatchers.
A dry, but windy afternoon at 2pm on Ashleigh Road. 10 Curlew, 6 Common Gull, 35 Starling and c70 Bh Gull. Another 9 Curlew, 3 Oystercatcher, 4 Common Gull and c.80 Bh Gull on the Hockey Court Field, plus 2 Mistle Thrush and 29 Redwing on Sketty Lane Field.
Lovely stroll around Penllergare Valley Woods today. Saw plenty of the usuals: blue/great/coal tits, robins, blackbirds, crows. About 30 mallard, 6–8 jay, 4–6 nuthatch, 3 goldcrest, 4 or 5 little grebe, one goo sander, and possibly the most handsome mallard cross I’ve ever seen (attached).
Grey wagtail on Cwm stream at 10.45am this morning as well as 3 Curlew on Ashleigh Road Playing Fields. Another 3 Curlew & 8 Oystercatcher on field below Hockey Courts plus 9 Curlew, 15 Starling and 25 Redwing on Sketty Lane Playing Fields
Penclawdd Marsh High Tide this morning 8am-11am. 52 species in total.
Lots of waders with the tide: 1 green sandpiper, 15 snipe, 30 dunlin, 25 curlew, 1 golden plover, 250 oystercatcher, 1 lapwing, 30 or so redshank.
Waterfowl: 3 mallard, 70 wigeon, 40 pintail, 17 teal, 5 mute swan.
Other highlights: 1 great black-backed gull, 1 merlin (female), 1 little grebe, 1 buzzard, 1 red kite, 1 common gull, 1 kingfisher, and 1 bullfinch.
Great White Egret yesterday morning.
Port Eynon late am – single Curlew, at least 2 Med Gulls in a mixed flock.
Male tawny owl calling at 22.45 last night from the Bible College on Derwen Fawr Road. Also a female blackcap feeding on fat balls in the garden on Glynderwen Crescent along with a redwing feeding on fallen apples.
Single Purple Sandpiper and Sanderling at Port Eynon beach. Displaced by rising tide.
Early hours of this morning. Tawny owl Langland
19/12
Langland Golf Course- mistle thrush
Langland Headland – 2 cormorant, rock pipit.
40 Curlew and c35 Oystercatcher on University/Ashleigh Road playing fields this afternoon approaching high tide.
Highlights from Penclawdd Marsh this morning: 8 snipe, 1 kingfisher, 8 skylark, 3 gadwall, 1 treecreeper, 4 redwing.
This afternoon…
Penclawdd Pill: 3 greenshank, 6 snipe, 1 common gull, 1 red kite, 6 gadwall.
Dalton’s Point: 2 grey plover, 6 lapwing, 16 black-tailed godwit, 1 buzzard upwards of 60 pintail and 40 wigeon. Surprisingly no dunlin after 90 a few days ago.
Male Blackcap in our Bishopston garden just now.
Langland to Caswell 20/12: kestrel, 2 chough, 4 raven (displaying)
Great Egret down on Llanrhidian marsh this afternoon
Ashley Rd Playing Fields:l this lunchtime
At least 31 curlew
10 common gull
2 med gulls
100+ Bhg
Handful of oystercatchers..
At 1240 today Sunday: a redwing on our back lawn in Brynfield Road.
Penclawdd Marsh today: 1 Snipe, 363 Canada Goose, 39 Greylag Goose, 3 Skylark, 1 Redwing, 1 Bullfinch.
Dalton’s Point: 1 Bar-tailed Godwit with 39 Black-tailed. 130 Dunlin, 1 Grey Plover, 1 Greenshank, 3 Common Gull, and a Great-crested Grebe.