Selected Wrens, Part 2

Passeriformes #2

Place: Car Park, Catcott Lows, Somerset Levels
Date: 2 April 2022.

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

Place: St. Justinians, St David’s, Pembrokeshire
Date: 3 May 2022.

Place: Scalasaig, Colonsay, Scotland
Date: 14 June 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 8 August 2022.

Place: Temple Church, Bristol
Date: 23 March 2023.

Place: Porthlysgi Bay, Pembrokeshire
Date: 26 April 2023.

Place: Porth Clais, Pembrokeshire
Date: 26 April 2023.

Place: Caerfai Bay, St. David’s, Pembrokeshire
Date: 28 April 2023.

Place: Coast path between Solva and Caerfai Bay, Pembrokeshire
Date: 28 April 2023.

[Nannus troglodytes, Family Troglodytidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian wren]

The sound of the wren (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist David Bissett)

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

Selected Wrens, Part 1

Passeriformes #2

Place: Howmore, South Uist, Outer Hebrides
Date: 19 June 2019.

Place: Banks of River Taff near M4, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 22 March 2021.

Place: Hafod Estate, Ceredigion
Date: 30 March 2021.

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

Place: Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 10 April 2021.

Place: Longshaw Estate, Peak District, Derbyshire
Date: 27 May 2021.

Place: Millcombe Valley, Lundy Island
Date: 1 July 2021.

Place: Coastpath between Caerfai and St. Non’s, Pembrokeshire
Date: 14 July 2021.

Place: Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk
Date: 25 September 2021.

Place: Battery Park, Brixham, Devon
Date: 23 January 2022.

Place: Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire
Date: 28 March 2022.

[Nannus troglodytes, Family Troglodytidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian wren]

The sound of the wren (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist David Bissett)

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

Selected Chaffinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 March 2021.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 29 April 2021.

Place: Lover’s Leap, Dovedale, Peak District, Staffordshire
Date: 25 May 2021.

Place: Malmsmead, Exmoor, Devon
Date: 20 July 2021.

Place: Ardtreck Point, Minginish, Isle of Skye
Date: 2 September 2021.

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

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

Place: Brockhampton, Herefordshire
Date: 13 October 2022.

[Fringilla coelebs, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common chaffinch]

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

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

Selected Jackdaws

Passeriformes #1

Place: Dirleton Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
Date: 27 June 2018.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 20 June 2020.

Place: Benllech cliffs, Anglesey
Date: 21 September 2020.

Place: Conwy Harbour, North Wales
Date: 29 September 2020.

Place: Nash Point, Vale of Glamorgan
Date: 2 November 2020.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 November 2020.

Place: Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, County Sligo, Ireland
Date: 1 September 2022.

Place: Cashel Rock, Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland
Date: 13 September 2022.

Place: Llanberis Mountain Railway Station, Gwynedd
Date: 21 May 2023.

[Coloeus monedula, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Western jackdaw]

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

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

Selected Kestrels

Falconiformes

Place: Leeds Castle, Kent
Date: 4 July 2016.

Place: Punta del Dichoso, Suances, Cantabria, northern Spain
Date: 19 September 2018.

Place: St. David’s Head, Pembrokeshire
Date: 15 July 2021.

Place: Shieldaig Falconry, Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands
Date: 10 September 2021.

Place: Oxwich National Nature Reserve, Gower
Date: 22 July 2022.

Place: Lavenham, Suffolk
Date: 30 September 2022.

[Falco tinnunculus, Family Falconidae, Order Falconiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common kestrel]

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

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

Sedge Warblers

Passeriformes #1

Place: RSPB Visitor Centre, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 20 April 2023.

Place: Top Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 29 April 2023.

Place: Second Withy, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 18 May 2023.

Place: Second Withy, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2023.

Place: Porthor, Gwynedd
Date: 20 May 2023.

[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).

Southern Ground Hornbill

Bucerotiformes

Place: Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire
Date: 2 May 2022.

[Bucorvus leadbeateri, Family Bucorvidae, Order Bucerotiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Southern ground hornbill]

The sound of the Southern ground hornbill (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Peter Boesman)

Cormorants with Filoplumes

Suliformes

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

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

Place: Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 April 2022.

Place: River Taff Upstream of Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 March 2023.

[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).

More Selected Black-headed Gulls

Charadriiformes

Place: Normanton Church, Rutland Water, Rutland
Date: 2 November 2021.

Place: Cockington Lakes, Cockington, Devon
Date: 24 January 2022.

Place: Slapton Ley Nature Reserve, Devon
Date: 25 January 2022.

Place: Cardigan, Ceredigion
Date: 2 March 2022.

Place: St.Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire
Date: 2 March 2022.

Place: Bishop’s Palace, Wells, Somerset
Date: 13 March 2022.

Place: Hengistbury Head, Dorset
Date: 16 April 2022.

Place: Port Ellen, Islay, Scotland
Date: 8 June 2022.

Place: Kensington Gardens, London
Date: 26 October 2022.

[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).

Barnacle Geese

Anseriformes

Place: Llangorse Common, Powys
Date: 3 April 2023.

[Branta leucopsis, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Barnacle goose]

The sound of the barnacle goose (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Willem-Pier Vellinga)

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