Great Tits from Forest Farm

Passeriformes #1

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Parus major, Family Paridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great tit]

The sound of the great tit (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stein Ø. Nilsen)

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

Various Blackcaps

Passeriformes #1

Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 29 April 2019.

Place: Mist nets near Bird Observatory, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 24 May 2019.

Place: Camping Goren am Bodensee, Kressbronn, Germany
Date: 17 August 2019.

[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).

Welsh House Sparrows

Passeriformes #3

Place: National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire
Date: 3 May 2017.

Place: New Quay, Ceredigion
Date: 2 April 2018.

Place: Warden Centre bird hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2018.

[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).

Forest Farm Green Woodpecker

Piciformes

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

[Picus viridis, Family Picidae, Order Piciformes, Wikipedia Entry: European green woodpecker]

The sound of the green woodpecker (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Olivier Grosselet)

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

Great Cormorants from Wales

Suliformes

Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 November 2017.

Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 November 2017.

Place: River Taff, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 20 February 2018.

Place: The Bitches off Ramsey Island
Date: 19 July 2018.

Place: River Taff, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 27 January 2019.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 6 February 2019.

Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 29 April 2019.

Place: Henllwyn, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 24 May 2019.

[Phalacrocorax carbo, Family Phalacrocoracidae, Order Suliformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great cormorant]

The sound of the great 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).

Forest Farm Reed Buntings

Passeriformes #3

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

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

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

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

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

[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).

Welsh Magpies

Passeriformes #1

Place: Manorbier YHA near Skrinkle, Pembrokeshire
Date: 9 April 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 April 2019.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 May 2019.

Place: North-western fields, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 18 May 2019.

Place: Meadows between Ty Pellaf and school, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 24 May 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 22 October 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 December 2019.

[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).

Forest Farm Kingfishers 2019, Part 2

Coraciiformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 July 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 1 October 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 22 October 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 8 November 2019.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 November 2019.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 4 December 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 December 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 Kingfishers 2019, Part 1

Coraciiformes

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

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

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

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 6 February 2019.

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

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

Place: Bird Hide #1, 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).

Curious Mallard

Anseriformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 April 2017.

[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).