Still More Forest Farm Jays

Passeriformes #1

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 10 November 2018.

Place: Longwood Nature Reserve, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 November 2018.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 16 December 2018.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 4 January 2019.

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

Place: Meadow Near Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 January 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 6 April 2019.

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

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 24 July 2019.

[Garrulus glandarius, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian jay]

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

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

Goldcrest

Passeriformes #2

Place: Plas Newydd, Anglesey
Date: 21 November 2018.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 March 2019.

[Regulus regulus, Family Regulidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Goldcrest]

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

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

More Long-tailed Tits

Passeriformes #2

Place: Bute Park, Cardiff
Date: 19 October 2016.

Place: Keyhaven, New Forest
Date: 6 February 2018.

Place: Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 8 February 2018.

Place: Largo das Caldas, Chaves, northern Portugal
Date: 30 August 2018.

Place: Hedge near allotments, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2018.

Place: Path near River Taff, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2018.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 19 December 2018.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 23 December 2018.

Place: Silchester Roman City, Hampshire
Date: 5 March 2019.

[Aegithalos caudatus, Family Aegithalidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Long-tailed tit]

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

Distribution and sightings of the long-tailed tit across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Moorhen Eating a Newt

Gruiformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 31 March 2019.

[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).

Local Blackbirds

Passeriformes #2

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 23 September 2012.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 3 March 2018.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 5 March 2018.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 8 April 2018.

Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 27 February 2019.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 27 March 2019.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 28 March 2019.

[Turdus merula, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common blackbird]

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

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

Welsh Black-headed Gulls

Charadriiformes

Place: River Taff upstream from Rady Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 January 2018.

Place: River Taff upstream from Rady Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 March 2018.

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

[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).

Preening Grey Wagtail

Passeriformes #3

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 8 April 2018.

[Motacilla cinerea, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Grey wagtail]

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

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

Male and Female Kingfisher

Coraciiformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 March 2019.

[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).

Forest Farm Teal

Anseriformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 27 February 2019.

[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).

Welsh Chaffinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Welsh Wildlife Centre, Aberteifi, Ceredigion
Date: 31 March 2018.

Place: Newport Beach, Pembrokeshire
Date: 1 April 2018.

Place: Warden Centre Bird Hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 10 November 2018.

Place: Llyn Peninsula, Gwynedd
Date: 19 November 2018.

Place: Cwm Ivy, Gower
Date: 9 August 2018.

[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).