Still More Forest Farm Reed Buntings

Passeriformes #3

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 30 June 2020.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 29 October 2020.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 10 March 2021.

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

[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).

Local Magpies

Passeriformes #1

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 15 June 2020.

Place: River Taff downstream from Radyr Station, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 November 2020.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 November 2020.

[Pica pica, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian magpie]

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

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

Still More Local Song Thrushes

Passeriformes #2

Place: Path near Allotments, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 24 January 2019.

Place: Tongwynlais Football Fields, Cardiff
Date: 24 January 2019.

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

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 May 2020.

Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 May 2020.

Place: River Taff upstream of M4, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 14 September 2020.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 November 2020.

Place: Tongwynlais Football Fields, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 8 March 2021.

[Turdus philomelos, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Song thrush]

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

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

Goldcrest

Passeriformes #2

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 10 February 2021.

[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 Local Dunnocks

Passeriformes #3

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 November 2019.

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

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

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

Place: Meadows to the east of Greenmeadow Wood, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 16 April 2020.

Place: Meadows to the east of Greenmeadow Wood, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 21 May 2020.

Place: Warden Centre Hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2020.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 4 February 2021.

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

[Prunella modularis, Family Prunellidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Dunnock]

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

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

Various House Sparrows

Passeriformes #3

Place: Figueras, Catalunya, Spain
Date: 20 June 2016.

Place: Kardamyli, West Man, Messenia, Greece
Date: 8 September 2019.

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

Place: Llanddona beach, Anglesey
Date: 27 September 2020.

Place: Warden Centre Hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2020.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 29 November 2020.

[Passer domesticus, Family Passeridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: House sparrow]

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

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

Gagging Mallard

Anseriformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 May 2020.

This mallard behaved in a very strange fashion (see video), as if it had something stuck in its throat and couldn’t dislodge it.

[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).

Local Greenfinches

Passeriformes #3

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

Place: Meadows to the east of Greenmeadow Wood, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 21 May 2020.

[Chloris chloris, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: European greenfinch]

The sound of the greenfinch (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Sander Bot)

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

More Forest Farm Dippers, Part 2

Passeriformes #2

Place: River Taff near Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 September 2020.

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

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

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

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

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

More Forest Farm Dippers, Part 1

Passeriformes #2

Place: Melingruffydd feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 16 March 2018.

Place: River Taff near Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 1 April 2020.

Place: River Taff near Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 May 2020.

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

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

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