Stock Doves

Columbiformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 April 2022.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 April 2022.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 December 2022.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 January 2023.

[Columba oenas, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Stock dove]

The sound of the stock dove (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)

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

Dabbling Mallards

Anseriformes

Place: Derwent Reservoir, Peak District National Park
Date: 29 July 2020.

Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 September 2021.

Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 April 2022.

[Anas platyrhynchos, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mallard]

The sound of the mallard (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Matthias Feuersenger)

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

Selected Mistle Thrushes, Part 2

Passeriformes #2

Place: Coast Path between Horton and Oxwich, Gower
Date: 17 May 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 29 May 2022.

Place: Muckross House, Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland
Date: 8 September 2022.

Place: Llynn Brianne, Carmarthenshire
Date: 22 October 2022.

Place: Lower Meadows, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 January 2023.

[Turdus viscivorus, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mistle thrush]

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

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

Selected Mistle Thrushes, Part 1

Passeriformes #2

Place: Lower Force, Upper Teesdale, North Pennines, County Durham
Date: 6 June 2021.

Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 27 November 2021.

Place: Top Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 17 February 2022.

Place: Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
Date: 27 March 2022.

[Turdus viscivorus, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mistle thrush]

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

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

Kingfisher Flitting from Pillar to Post

Coraciiformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 November 2022.

[Alcedo atthis, Family Alcedinidae, Order Coraciiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common kingfisher]

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

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

Selected Little Egrets, Part 2

Pelecaniformes

Place: WWT Stears Marshes, Somerset
Date: 24 July 2020.

Place: Looe, Cornwall
Date: 7 September 2020.

Place: Monk’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, East of Newport, Gwent
Date: 16 September 2020.

Place: Llanfairfechan beach, North Wales
Date: 30 September 2020.

Place: Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk
Date: 28 September 2021.

Place: Tor View hide, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 1 April 2022.

Place: Orford Quay, Suffolk
Date: 2 October 2022.

Place: Orford Ness, Suffolk
Date: 2 October 2022.

Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 January 2023.

[Egretta garzetta, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Little egret]

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

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

More Blackcaps

Passeriformes #1

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 April 2021.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 April 2021.

Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 April 2021.

Place: Tongwynlais Picnic Site, Tongwynlais
Date: 11 April 2022.

Place: Lily Pools, Bosherston, Pembrokeshire
Date: 9 May 2022.

Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 30 June 2022.

[Sylvia atricapilla, Family Sylviidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian blackcap]

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

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

Selected Dippers, Part 2

Passeriformes #2

Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 September 2021.

Place: Miller’s Dale, Peak District, Derbyshire
Date: 10 February 2022.

Place: Chee Dale, Peak District, Derbyshire
Date: 10 February 2022.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal Extension, near Tongwynlais Picnic Area, Cardiff
Date: 4 November 2022.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal Extension, near Tongwynlais Picnic Area, Cardiff
Date: 14 January 2023.

[Cinclus cinclus, Family Cinclidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: White-throated dipper]

The sound of the dipper (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jarek Matusiak)

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

Local Lesser Black-backed Gulls

Charadriiformes

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 26 March 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 1 April 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 14 April 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 15 April 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 25 April 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 18 March 2018.

Place: Roath Park Lake, Cardiff
Date: 10 November 2018.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 10 November 2018.

Place: Cosmeston Lakes, Lavernock, Vale of Glamorgan
Date: 19 September 2020.

Place: Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 April 2022.

[Larus fuscus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Lesser black-backed gull]

The sound of the lesser black-backed gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)

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

Selected Moorhens

Gruiformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 4 April 2016.

Place: Wetland Centre Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
Date: 24 July 2016.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 April 2019.

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

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 May 2019.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 July 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 8 April 2020.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 September 2020.

[Gallinula chloropus, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common moorhen]

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

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