Selected Reed Buntings

Passeriformes #3

Place: The Well, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.

Place: Visitor Centre, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.

Place: Central Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 May 2021.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 February 2022.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 3 April 2022.

Place: Entrance to Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 April 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 17 April 2022.

Place: Central Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 26 May 2022.

[Emberiza schoeniclus, Family Emberizidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common reed bunting]

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

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

Various Bullfinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 February 2022.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 February 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

[Pyrrhula pyrrhula, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian bullfinch]

The sound of the bullfinch (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)

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

More Cetti’s Warblers

Passeriformes #2

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

Place: Top Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 26 May 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 26 May 2022.

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

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

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

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

More Sedge Warblers

Passeriformes #1

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 10 May 2021.

Place: Abermawr, Pembrokeshire
Date: 21 June 2021.

Place: Marloes Mere, Pembrokeshire
Date: 22 June 2021.

Place: Central Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

Place: Trefin, Pembrokeshire
Date: 4 May 2022.

Place: Portnahaven, Islay, Scotland
Date: 9 June 2022.

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

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

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

Selected Wood Pigeons

Columbiformes

Place: Lymington, New Forest
Date: 1 May 2016.

Place: Vendicari Nature Reserve, Sicily
Date: 25 May 2016.

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

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 24 July 2019.

Place: Williton, Somerset
Date: 19 July 2021.

Place: Oakham, Rutland
Date: 2 November 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 18 November 2021.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 December 2021.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

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

[Columba palumbus, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common wood pigeon]

The sound of the wood pigeon (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jelmer Poelstra)

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

Cormorant Drying its Wings

Suliformes

Place: Leighton Moss, Lancashire
Date: 9 February 2017.

Place: West viewing platform, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 17 May 2018.

Place: River Taff near M4 Motorway, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 July 2020.

Place: Eight-Arch Bridge, Bosherton Lakes, Pembrokeshire
Date: 21 July 2020.

Place: Gyllyngvase beach, Falmouth, Cornwall
Date: 9 September 2020.

Place: River Taff near Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 November 2020.

Place: River Taff on Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 November 2020.

Place: Cromer, Norfolk
Date: 26 September 2021.

Place: RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands, Cheshire
Date: 8 October 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 18 November 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).

Chiffchaffs

Passeriformes #2

Place: Porth Clais, Pembrokeshire
Date: 20 June 2021.

Place: Seventy Acres, Shapwick Heath, Somerset Levels
Date: 1 April 2022.

Place: Car park, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 1 April 2022.

Place: Howardian Local Nature Reserve, Cardiff
Date: 8 April 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

Place: Central Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

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

[Phylloscopus collybita, Family Phylloscopidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common chiffchaff]

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

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

Marsh Harrier at Fishlake Meadows

Accipitriformes

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 18 November 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 21 November 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 22 November 2021.

[Circus aeruginosus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Western marsh harrier]

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

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

Shovelers

Anseriformes

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 4 August 2020.

Place: Prior’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 10 November 2020.

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

[Spatula clypeata, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern shoveler]

The sound of the shoveler (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Paul Driver)

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

More Teals

Anseriformes

Place: Calshot, New Forest
Date: 27 December 2020.

Place: Monk’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 16 April 2021.

Place: Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire
Date: 24 September 2021.

Place: Northern Wetlands, Parc Slip Nature Reserve, Aberkenfig, Bridgend
Date: 11 November 2021.

Place: Lake near Screens, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 21 February 2022.

Place: Lake near Screens, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 24 February 2022.

Place: Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve, Ceredigion
Date: 2 March 2022.

[Anas crecca, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian teal]

The sound of the teal (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist David Farrow)

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