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Welcome to the GRC Recorders pages. This blog provides details on all the relevant news of Glamorgan’s scarcer birds, plus all BBRC & WRP decisions that affect us locally. It will also be used to document the status and occurrence of these scarcer species and we welcome contributions from anyone with photographs, artwork or documentation of rarities past, present and future. The GRC also welcomes all seawatching news from around Glamorgan and news of passage migrants in spring & autumn, uncommon birds in our area and unusual behaviour.


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The Glamorgan Rarities Committee, in conjunction with the Glamorgan Bird Club & Gower Wildlife , have agreed to co-operate with the Welsh Ornithological Society in the sharing of bird records & photographs in the interest of keeping accurate records and to promote birdwatching in North, Mid & South Wales.

Sunday 22 May 2011

Black Stork: Mynydd Ty Talwyn, Llangynwyd









Few record photos of the Black Stork seen in flight over Mynydd Ty Talwyn,Llangynwyd,Maesteg this morning by Paul Tabor and myself,the last photo shows the bird going down and we believed at the time that it had landed out of sight over the crest of the hill.

The stork was first seen by Paul who then got me on to the bird and I managed a few record shots,the bird was about 1/4 mile distant so the photos are heavily cropped.

Despite a good search of the surrounding area and Parc Slip NR by several birders the bird could not be relocated,hopefully it is still in the area and someone refinds it.

6 comments:

Barry Stewart said...

What a fantastic record - well done both.

pedro said...

Cracking bird jeff!

DRWG said...

Excellent record both. Well done for getting these photos too Jeff. A VC first. Top birding.

Anonymous said...

Well done, a great find! MSC

Paul Parsons said...

Well done Paul and Jeff, the rarest bird in the Llynfi valley to date.

Mark Hipkin said...

Fantastic find and on local patch to boot! Who needs Eglwys?!!
Great shots too Jeff, at that distance they've come out really well.