Welsh Robins, Part 2

Passeriformes #2

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 30 June 2022.

Place: Chirk Castle, Wrexham
Date: 24 August 2022.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 20 October 2022.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 December 2022.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 15 December 2022.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 22 January 2023.

Place: Powis Castle, near Welshpool, Powys
Date: 29 March 2023.

Place: Observatory, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 13 May 2023.

Place: Observatory, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 14 May 2023.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 October 2023.

Place: Hill End, Gower
Date: 8 October 2023.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 December 2023.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 January 2024.

[Erithacus rubecula, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: European robin]

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

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

Selected Buzzards, Part 2

Accipitriformes

Place: Whitson, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 10 November 2020.

Place: Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 10 November 2020.

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

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 9 April 2021.

Place: Longwood Woods, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 November 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 18 November 2021.

Place: Southern Meadow, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 27 November 2021.

Place: Southern Meadows, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 16 January 2022.

Place: Coryton Rundabout, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 21 January 2023.

Place: St. Justinians, St.David’s, Pembrokeshire
Date: 26 April 2023.

[Buteo buteo, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common buzzard]

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

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

Selected Buzzards, Part 1

Accipitriformes

Place: Marloes Mere, Pembrokeshire
Date: 29 April 2018.

Place: Slebech Hall, Pembrokeshire
Date: 4 May 2018.

Place: Cwm Ivy Marsh, Llanmadoc, Gower
Date: 22 July 2018.

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

Place: Rhyd Ddu, Snowdonia
Date: 22 November 2018.

Place: Mountain, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 22 May 2019.

Place: Nymans NT, Handcross, West Sussex
Date: 1 August 2019.

Place: Methoni, Greece
Date: 10 September 2019.

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

Place: Moelfre, Anglesey
Date: 23 September 2020.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 11 October 2020.

[Buteo buteo, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common buzzard]

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

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

Wood Pigeons

Columbiformes

Place: Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Date: 11 September 2022.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 14 December 2022.

Place: Cosmeston Lakes, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan
Date: 22 April 2023.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 1 May 2023.

Place: Glenashdale, Arran, Scotland
Date: 10 June 2023.

Place: Hillsborough Estate, County Down, Northern Ireland
Date: 30 June 2023.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 August 2023.

Place: Camping Vila Real, Vila Real, Portugal
Date: 29 August 2023.

Place: Monserrate, Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal
Date: 7 September 2023.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 5 October 2023.

[Columba palumbus, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common wood pigeon]

The sound of the wood pigeon (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jelmer Poelstra)

Distribution and sightings of the wood pigeon 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 Magpies

Passeriformes #1

Place: Scarborough, Yorkshire
Date: 1 November 2015.

Place: Brandon Hill near Cabot Tower, Bristol
Date: 10 April 2016.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 November 2021.

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 October 2022.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 22 January 2023.

Place: Observatory, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2023.

[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).

More Blackcaps

Passeriformes #1

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

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 April 2021.

Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 April 2021.

Place: Tongwynlais Picnic Site, Tongwynlais
Date: 11 April 2022.

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

Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 30 June 2022.

[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).

Selected Dippers, Part 2

Passeriformes #2

Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 September 2021.

Place: Miller’s Dale, Peak District, Derbyshire
Date: 10 February 2022.

Place: Chee Dale, Peak District, Derbyshire
Date: 10 February 2022.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal Extension, near Tongwynlais Picnic Area, Cardiff
Date: 4 November 2022.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal Extension, near Tongwynlais Picnic Area, Cardiff
Date: 14 January 2023.

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

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

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

Local Lesser Black-backed Gulls

Charadriiformes

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 26 March 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 1 April 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 14 April 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 15 April 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 25 April 2017.

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 18 March 2018.

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

Place: Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 10 November 2018.

Place: Cosmeston Lakes, Lavernock, Vale of Glamorgan
Date: 19 September 2020.

Place: Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 April 2022.

[Larus fuscus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Lesser black-backed gull]

The sound of the lesser black-backed gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)

Distribution and sightings of the lesser black-backed gull across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Selected Blue Tits

Passeriformes #1

Place: Newgale, Pembrokeshire
Date: 20 April 2017.

Place: Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve, Blackpool, Lancashire
Date: 26 February 2018.

Place: Hyde Park, London
Date: 20 March 2018.

Place: Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Date: 23 March 2018.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 25 December 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 September 2020.

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 21 July 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 30 July 2022.

[Cyanistes caeruleus, Family Paridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian blue tit]

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

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