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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.
Latest news from Gower Ringing Group here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-26-june-2021-a-ringing-demonstration/
Birds at Oxwich yesterday included hawfinch (trapped and ringed) and the first young of a number of species for 2021. Also crossbill (4) overhead.
Pacific Swift between Mewslade and Fall Bay late this morning. Photo from the finders Kate Hammond and Gareth Bowen-Llewelyn
Nice to see in the garden yesterday in West Cross
Cwm Ivy car park afternoon of 23 June. Lesser whitethroat singing in hedges surrounding car parking field with some good views of bird. Another singing from scrub at edge of Whiteford marsh about halfway from sea wall to end of dunes. Spotted flycatcher near Monterey Hide and several sedge warblers along track beyond the sea wall. Common whitethroat feeding chick at edge of marsh. One sand martin at end of dunes and large flock of oystercatchers (800+). A few ringed plovers and around 20 each of curlews and shelduck.
Single Chough seen feeding on cliffs between Limeslade and Rotherslade. I’ve not seen them very often that far east.
Lliw Reservoirs and Brynllefrith 22.06.2021-Evidence of breeding for several species with adults feeding young of Redstart,Blue Tit,Lesser Redpoll,Stonechat,Wheatear,Green Woodpecker and Linnet,Pied Wagtail and Meadow Pipit. The single Great Crested Grebe remains on the lower reservoir and Tree Pipits,Chiffchaff,Willow Warbler,Blackcap,Bullfinch,Wren,Great Spotted Woodpecker and Great Tit in Brynllefrith plantation. On the upper reservoir there was a mixed flock of Herring Gull and Lesser Black Back Gull with a couple of Red Kite above
The busy bird feeder in our Manselfield garden
It has been a good couple of weeks for Siskin in the garden here at Clydach with mixed flocks seen daily.
About 20 swifts with a few house martins in Bishopston. Seem to have been nesting around there. 21/6/21
Fenrod lake 103 Canada geese also a pair with 3. Young ,30 mute swan pair of great c grebes an adult s/p black headed gull usuall coots moorhens mallards tufteds herring gulls lesser b b gulls ,goldfinch, house sparrow wood pigeon ,and magpie
Today a pair of Siskin have joined the throng I described yesterday on our bird feeders in Manselfield.
Latest news from Gower Ringing Group is here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-19-june-2021-finch-centuries-despite-bad-wind/