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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!

Shoveler

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

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Summer Atlas project.
Now that the 3rd summer recording period is complete (end-July) please remember to submit any late breeding records you may find.
Summer coverage in our allotted Atlas region falls just short of 1,000 sq km visited on at least two occasions in summer. THANKYOU to all those that have walked Timed Tetrad Visits, and to those that have put in Roving record sheets for birds casually seen in your garden, local woood or pond. They are all adding up to be a really meaningful dataset - with one remaining winter period (Nov - end Feb) and summer period (April - end July 2011) outstanding.
Lets have a final push and get as much of the county monitored as possible.
I particularly appeal to those of you that did 1-2 tetrads in the first year - and have gone quiet since!! The BTO Atlas website is awaiting your visit to allocate yourself another square! Plenty to choose from left.


Stats so far:
260 observers have submiited a total exceeding 75,000 individual records: 50,000 of these have been validated by the Atlas Committee: two stalwarts have each individually submitted over 11,000 records. Have you done your bit??

Roving records or Timed Tetrad Visit surveys can either be submitted through the BTO Atlas website (www.birdatlas.net), or by requesting paper forms for manual completion from either John Lloyd (the_lloyds@dsl.pipex.com) or Andrew King (andrew.king53@virgin.net)


Big thank you to all those that have contributed since November 2007 when the winter and summer Atlas projects got under way.

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2009 Breconshire Bird Report is currently being compiled. Expected publication date is late October 2010.

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2008 BRECONSHIRE BIRD REPORT - published by Brecknock Wildlife Trust. Biggest ever edition - 76 pages!!
Great value at £6 if collected from either the BWT office in Brecon (Tel 01874 625708), or via the Editor, Andrew King. (£6.60 for a mailed copy).


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Entry added by: Andrew King on Sun 5th September 10, 01:21pm Sighting location: Conference time again. Sighting date: 05/09/10
Welsh Orn Society Annual Conference. 9th November, Caersws. A new link has been added to 'Useful Links' page. For those that have not been before, it is always an excellent event - this year the programme is very relevant to Breconshire too with its wealth of wetlands. Members and non-members welcome. In the interests of green and economic travel, if anyone wants a lift from the Brecon area give me a ring 01874 658351, first-cum-first -served basis.

Entry added by: Andrew King on Sun 5th September 10, 01:15pm Sighting location: Llangorse Lake. Sighting date: 05/09/10
One Little Tern still present favouring the SW corner of the Lake well away from the largest sailing regatta of the year.

Entry added by: J F D on Sun 5th September 10, 11:39am Sighting location: Llangasty. Sighting date: 03/09/10
Visited hide for first time - reeds too long to see lake. Lots of Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff feeding up around the lake. Goshawk flew past the woods by the hide and male GSW visible in the wood. Whitethroat pair around edge of the wood. White and Pied Wagtail on the lake edge and fly past by Ringed Plover

Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Sat 4th September 10, 08:09pm Sighting location: Brecfa Pool / Erwood Station. Sighting date: 04/09/10
26 Teal at the pool and 4 Grey Wagtail at Erwood Station.