More Great Crested Grebes

Podicipediformes

Place: Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent
Date: 4 July 2016.

Place: Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve
Date: 12 November 2016.

Place: Noah’s Hide, Shapwick Heath, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.

Place: Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve, Cardiff
Date: 17 July 2020.

[Podiceps cristatus, Family Podicipedidae, Order Podicipediformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great crested grebe]

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

Distribution and sightings of the great crested grebe 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).

Various Collared Doves

Columbiformes

Place: Ajaccio, Corsica
Date: 31 May 2017.

Place: Braga, northern Portugal
Date: 31 August 2018.

Place: Sesimbra, Setubal district, central Portugal
Date: 9 September 2018.

Place: Paravang, Blankenberge
Date: 21 January 2019.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 23 February 2019.

Place: Nant, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2019.

[Streptopelia decaocto, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian collared dove]

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

Distribution and sightings of the collared dove 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).