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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.
Two buzzards and a red kite over Pen-y-Gaer, Penclawdd this afternoon.
Red kite between lon las and skewen this afternoon
Latest news from Gower Ringing Group is here: https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/oxwich-marsh-2-july-2021-an-aged-blackcap-a-marsh-tit-and-moths/
Great work once again.Always an interesting read. Diolch/Thank you.
Thank you Dewi. Much appreciated
Oxwich Marsh: whimbrels calling from shore first thing. First day of numerous juvenile sedge warblers. Also young wren, marsh tit and bullfinch ringed. Brown china mark moth, grass snake.
c300 Jackdaws high over Pennard cliffs this morning. Soon there will be much larger flocks, especially in the evenings.
27.6.21
West Gower cliffs:
Goldfinches, house sparrows, house martins, a load of starlings, swallows, woodpigeon, blackbirds, great tits, a buzzard, some shags, jackdaws, a nest of herring gulls, and a pair of peregrines. We heard what we think was a baby peregrine.
Two Swifts screaming over Mirador Crescent this morning. The sound of summer!
Crossbills moving early AM, with c. 10-15 high over Langland
At fenrod lake late afternoon 110+ Canada geese together in the middle of the lake 36 est mute swan ,around the car park female blackcap pied wagtail ,dunnock, house sparrows, robin and chaffinch.
Common cuckoo calling at Crymlyn Bog nature reserve. Red Kite over car park and several Stonechats on access road on way in and way out.
30+ jackdaws on a factory roof and later in the trees at Salthouse Point Industrial Estate, Crofty yesterday evening. Also a lost racing pigeon.
15 probably a few more well grown young herring and lesser b b gulls on the wernick hire factory roof at the quays Briton ferry also 60 + jackdaws including juvs feeding on the grass of the same factory
In llandarcy park 50+ jackdaws with juvs again on the grass .