Local Great Spotted Woodpeckers

Piciformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2020.

Place: Near Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 3 March 2021.

Place: Garth Hill, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Date: 20 April 2021.

[Dendrocopos major, Family Picidae, Order Piciformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great spotted woodpecker]

The sound of the great spotted woodpecker (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mathias Ritschard)

Distribution and sightings of the great spotted woodpecker across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Ospreys in the Lake

Accipitriformes

Place: Llyn Clywedog reservoir, Powys
Date: 31 March 2021.

[Pandion haliaetus, Family Pandionidae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Osprey]

The sound of the osprey (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the osprey across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Grey Herons from Forest Farm, Part 2

Pelecaniformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 24 March 2020.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 1 April 2020.

Place: Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 June 2020.

Place: Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 3 July 2020.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2020.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2020.

Place: River Taff Downstream of Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 November 2020.

Place: Southern Meadows, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 16 February 2021.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 6 May 2021.

[Ardea cinerea, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Grey heron]

The sound of the grey heron (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the grey heron across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Grey Herons from Forest Farm, Part 1

Pelecaniformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 April 2014.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 August 2017.

Place: Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 April 2018.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 August 2018.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 August 2018.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 6 February 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 February 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 July 2019.

[Ardea cinerea, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Grey heron]

The sound of the grey heron (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the grey heron across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Cormorant with Filoplumes

Suliformes

Place: River Taff Upstream of Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 February 2021.

[Phalacrocorax carbo, Family Phalacrocoracidae, Order Suliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great cormorant]

The sound of the cormorant (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)

Distribution and sightings of the cormorant across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Black-headed Gull Dive-feeding

Charadriiformes

Picture only used as a place holder. The real dive-feeding happens in the video.

Place: Coombe Farm, near Fowey, Cornwall
Date: 8 September 2020.

[Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-headed gull]

The sound of the black-headed gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the black-headed gull across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Guillemots from Scotland

Charadriiformes

Place: Bullers of Buchan, Aberdeenshire
Date: 16 July 2017.

Place: RSPB Sumburgh, Shetland Mainland
Date: 9 June 2018.

Place: Noss, Shetland Islands
Date: 10 June 2018.

Place: Nunnery Point, St. Abb’s Head, Berwickshire, Scotland
Date: 28 June 2018.

Place: Dun, St.Kilda
Date: 9 June 2019.

Place: Mull of Galloway, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Date: 27 June 2019.

[Uria aalge, Family Alcidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common murre]

The sound of the guillemot (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist david m)

Distribution and sightings of the guillemot across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Cetti’s Warblers at Fishlake Meadows

Passeriformes #2

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 4 April 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 9 April 2021.

[Cettia cetti, Family Cettiidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Cetti’s warbler]

The sound of Cetti’s warbler (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Bernard Collet)

Distribution and sightings of Cetti’s warbler across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Sedge Warblers on Bardsey Island

Passeriformes #1

Place: Ringing station, Bird Observatory, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2019.

Place: Ty Pellaf Withy, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 20 May 2019.

[Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, Family Acrocephalidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Sedge warbler]

The sound of the sedge warbler (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the sedge warbler across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Redshanks from Anglesey

Charadriiformes

Place: Penrhos, Holy Island, Anglesey
Date: 22 September 2020.

Place: Aberffraw, Anglesey
Date: 25 September 2020.

[Tringa totanus, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common redshank]

The sound of the redshank (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ruud van Beusekom)

Distribution and sightings of the redshank across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).