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Gooseander, female

Welcome to Brecknock Birds

Welcome to Brecknock Birds. This site has been set up to encourage interest in bird watching and ornithology in Brecknockshire.

This is a child friendly site and in common with other bird sightings websites, we appeal to contributors to put the birds first. Particularly for sensitive species, please can we ask that no reference is made to breeding sites or aspects of behaviour that would indicate breeding at a set locality in your postings. If in any doubt, then please contact Andrew King, Brecknock County Bird Recorder, first (email below). In view of this, any postings made that are deemed inappropriate will be removed by the moderators without warning or explanation. We hope these pages will build on our knowledge of birds rather than provide valuable information to those few people that may wish to target species for their own purposes.

The district of Brecknockshire covers approximately 500 square miles, stretching from Rhayader to Merthyr Tydfil, Ystradgynlais to Hay on Wye. We hope very much you enjoy bird watching here as much as we do and look forward to hearing about your bird sightings. Happy birding!

Mandarin Duck, male

Brecknock Bird News by Andrew King, County Bird Recorder (andrew.king53[at]virgin.net)

2007 Breconshire Bird Report (published by Brecknock Wildlife Trust) - NOW ON SALE, price £5.
Available to personal callers at the BWT office in Brecon, or can be mailed out on addition of P&P costs.

64 pages containing:
**** Full species summaries from 2007 records received, including some notified via this website. Read how your own sightings have contributed to our knowledge of species within the county,
**** Articles of topical and local interest,
**** Colour photos of Breconshire birds, including some extreme rarities.

Enquire at:
Brecknock Wildlife Trust, Lion House, Bethel Square, BRECON, Powys, LD3 7AY (telephone 01874 610552)

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Request for Butterfly data
With my Butterfly recorder hat on!! - several Atlas contributors have asked if they should record presence/absence of Butterfly species in their tetrad. Definitely a good idea - whilst birds are the main target, please make a note of what species you encounter at tetrad scale, with a vague idea of numbers, and let me know at the end of the season. Grateful for any help you can give.

Andrew King - Breconshire Butterfly Recorder.




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Added by: Bryan Jones on Mon 6th October 08, 07:07pm
Sighting location: SN8633. Sighting date: 5/10/2008
1 Male hen Harrier hunting near FFynnon yr Oerfa 0750 hrs. and at 1712hrs a female hen harrier in virtually the same spot. Also 7 Fieldfare flying overhead nr. Dixie's Corner.

Added by: John Davies & Steven Butler on Mon 6th October 08, 12:01pm
Sighting location: Llangorse Lake. Sighting date: 05.Oct.2008
No sign of the Pec Sands early afternoon. 20 Swallow, a couple of House Martins, 200 plus Coot recorded.