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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.
Managed to catch up with the baglan energy park magnolia warbler today (25th) very elusive but worth it, well done Gary Lewis for finding it 1st for Glamorgan 4th for Britain there’s life in the old dog yet.
Another of the ringed Jackdaws from.Southgate..
The Pectoral Sandpiper was still present at Castell Du yesterday morning along with Little Ringed Plover, Wood Sandpiper & 7 Greenshank.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WMV6RAKK4cd6FCqU6
Oxwich Marsh Ringing totals this morning: Blackcap 20, Blue Tit 9, Cetti’s Warbler 6, Chiffchaff 26, Dunnock 2, Goldcrest 4, Grasshopper Warbler 1, Grey Wagtail 1, Reed Bunting 4, Reed Warbler 4 , Robin 3, Sedge Warbler 1, Skylark 1, Stonechat 2, Wren 3. Grand Total 87
Also kestrel flew over the site
A Pectoral Sandpiper at Castell Du today, I think, represents just the second occurrence within the recording area (happy to be corrected). A juvenile Osprey provided additional interest.
Actually it’s the 3rd occurrence, the first being at Nicholaston Pill in 1973 and then 2 birds at Weobley in 2011.
Wasn’t the 2011 pec at woebley on same day as buff breasted , and white rumped sandpiper ? I remember getting very muddy
Lots of waders along the saltmarsh fringe at Weobley this am including 1200 Dunlin, 200 Ringed Plover, 52 Bar-tailed Godwit, 38 Curlew, 22 Curlew Sandpiper, 20 Knot, 5 Great White Egret and singles of Green Sandpiper, Little Stint (video), Golden Plover and Turnstone
Two Great Crested Grebes off Knab Rock, Mumbles thus morning. The first I have seen here this autumn.
This afternoon.
Dalton’s Point.
Knot 28, Bl t Godwit 440
Penclawdd.
Redshank 248, Ruff 1, Greenshank 1, Common Sandpiper 1.
Four Brent Geese in a calm high tide sea off Oystermouth this morning.
Bwllchymynydd foreshore car park late afternoon.
Pintail 53, Wigeon 1 eclipse drake, Greenshank 2, GW Egret 1, Marsh Harrier 1 female type following a Red Kite high up the valley. A cream crowned bird but unlike the individual at Llanrhidian yesterday with little or no cream on the forewing.
Rather poor BOC record shot of the Cattle Egrets at Castell Du yesterday
This afternoon. Bwllchymynydd foreshore car park Pintail 46, Greenshank 4, GW Egret 1, Shelduck 38, Ringed Plover 8, Dunlin 12 Llanrhidian Marsh Harrier 1 female type (cream crown and upper wing lesser coverts but really pristine so possibly a juv), Green Sandpiper 1, GW Egret 2. Dalton’s Point Knot 12, Spoonbill 1 mid channel. This evening. Castell Du Herring Gull 48, LBBG 81, GBBG 2, Little Grebe 2, Common Sandpiper 3, Dunlin 1, Sparrowhawk 1 chasing Pied Wagtails resting on washed up dead tree, Pied Wagtail 138, Green Sandpiper 1, Cattle Egret a flock of 11 feeding around cows in… Read more »
Castell Du 07:45 …a fine 20 mins on the rising tide .2Curlew Sand , 1 Little stint the highlights , with 5 Dunlin , 4 Greenshank , 2 Green sand .
At Bwllchymynydd further down the river , 1 Greenshank, 1 Common sand , 46 Shelduck , 38 Teal , 2 Black-wit , 2 Curlew , 24 Oyc
Thur 14 Sept – flock of approx 30 Brent Geese in the wake off Blackpill lido at evening high tide.
Broughton Bay and Burrows this afternoon.
Oystercatcher 210, Eider 24 (10 drakes), Common Scoter 3 (2 drakes), Stonechat 5 pairs plus 3 young, Linnet a flock of 73.
Castell Du on the HT this evening.
A roost of 18 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint, 5 Greenshank, 1 Common Sandpiper all flushed by two motor boats coming up river and eventually flying downstream. 67 Pied Wagtails on the salt marsh.
Dalton’s Point this afternoon.
Redshank 217, Knot 19, Bl t Godwit 103, Dunlin 9, Teal 105, Wigeon 1, GC Grebe 1, Pintail 3
Port Eynon this afternoon.
Ringed Plover 35, Dunlin 1, Gannet 11 down channel, Curlew 1, Sandwich Tern 6, Oystercatcher 8, Turnstone 11.
Bwllchymynydd foreshore car park this evening.
Mallard 198, Teal 219, Dunlin 20, Ringed Plover 4, Shelduck 44, Pintail 34, Little Egret 74, GW Egret 1.
Bwllchymynydd foreshore car park on the run up this evening.
Pintail 96, GW Egret 2, Teal 30
A write up of the Welsh Ringing Course hosted by Gower Ringing Group is here:
https://www.gowerbirds.org.uk/the-welsh-ringing-course-2023/
Well done Owain Gabb.Great read and interesting information.Thank you.
Osprey flying north over Pennard Castle 15.15 hrs today.
Oxwich Marsh 8-11 September: 135 blackcap, 293 barn swallows, 50 chiffchaff, 12 reed warbler, 19 sedge warbler, 3 grasshopper warbler, 12 whitethroat, 8 willow warbler, female kingfisher and a first winter wryneck all trapped and ringed.
Fly over yellow wagtail among other species noted moving through.
Neil Holden reports Peregrine falcon on Thurba Head around 11am today.
19 choughs on Rhossili Downs ridge around 4pm today, Sunday
Friday 8th Mewslade .. 2 Willow warbler , 8 chiffchaff , 3 whitethroat , 1Dartford,1 Garden. 9 Blackcap. c.14 Robin, Kestrel, Green Wood, 5 stonechat. 2 blue tit , 4 great tit plus a a few dunnock .
Rhossili Sat 9th 7:45-9:00. ..c. 25 Mead pip in suitable fields ,, moving around . 8 stonechat , 7 Robin , Kestrel , 3 mobile Goldfinch/Linnet flocks approx 40 per flock. 19 Pied wag in the inly ploughed/harrowed field . a few hirundines moving around . only migrants ; fly-over Tree pipit, Yellow wag and 2 Siskin ….
Owain Gabb reports the Gower Ringing Group caught and ringed a first year WRYNECK in Oxwich this morning.
A second for this site.
Penclawdd this morning; 1 Great White Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Sandpiper.