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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.

Saturday, 23 June 2012

Mumbles Seawatching

Seawatching from Bracelet Bay carpark 5:10 to 8:30

1 Storm Petrel west 07:30 (& prob earlier east 6:44)
2 Arctic Skua(dp) west 5:20
2 Sandwich Tern(w), 1 Common Scoter(w), 7 Fulmar(w), 10+ Gannet(w), 19 Guillemot(w), 2 Razorbill(w).
Manx Shearwaters and Kittiwake feeding and recycling. Manx Shearwaters started to arrive in numbers around 6:30 which may have brought the Storm Petrel in too?

A nice mini experiment (not prearranged) was that Owain Gabb was watching the same area, but from lookout station, and the records are mainly consistent. It shows me that stuff can be missed that passes close to Tutt head but also stuff that passes further out will be missed from the carpark.
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