Selected Dunnocks

Passeriformes #3

Place: Old Harry Rocks, north of Swanage, Dorset
Date: 11 March 2020.

Place: Benllech beach, Anglesey
Date: 24 September 2020.

Place: Newborough Warren, Anglesey
Date: 27 September 2020.

Place: Morfa Bychan, Llyn peninsula, Gwynedd
Date: 7 December 2020.

Place: Constitution Hill, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Date: 2 April 2021.

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 4 April 2021.

Place: Millcombe Valley, Lundy
Date: 30 June 2021.

Place: Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
Date: 27 March 2022.

Place: Viewing Platform #1, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 2 April 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

[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).

More Chaffinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Sartène, Corsica
Date: 4 June 2017.

Place: Torre del Porticciolo, Sardinia
Date: 19 June 2017.

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

Place: Housesteads Roman Fort, Northumbria
Date: 30 June 2018.

Place: Olympia Archeological Site, Greece
Date: 12 September 2019.

Place: Looe, Cornwall
Date: 7 September 2020.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 November 2020.

[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).

Selected Reed Buntings

Passeriformes #3

Place: The Well, Skokholm
Date: 2 May 2018.

Place: Visitor Centre, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.

Place: Central Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 May 2021.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 February 2022.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 3 April 2022.

Place: Entrance to Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 April 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 17 April 2022.

Place: Central Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 26 May 2022.

[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).

Various Bullfinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 February 2022.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 February 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

[Pyrrhula pyrrhula, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian bullfinch]

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

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

Selected Black-headed Gulls

Charadriiformes

Place: Ring canal around Bruges, Belgium
Date: 2 December 2018.

Place: Village Bay, Hirta, St.Kilda
Date: 9 June 2019.

Place: Venice, Italy
Date: 20 August 2019.

Place: Brindisi, Italy
Date: 18 September 2019.

Place: River Taff upstream of Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 October 2020.

Place: River Taff upstream of Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 February 2021.

Place: Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 10 March 2021.

Place: Overstrand, Norfolk
Date: 25 September 2021.

[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).

Heronries

Pelecaniformes

Place: Forest Farm near Asda, Coryton, Cardiff
Date: 20 February 2018.

Place: Loch Leven Castle, Perth & Kinross, Scotland
Date: 22 June 2018.

Place: Forest Farm near Asda, Coryton, Cardiff
Date: 25 January 2019.

Place: Forest Farm near Asda, Coryton, Cardiff
Date: 3 March 2020.

Place: Forest Farm near Asda, Coryton, Cardiff
Date: 12 April 2020.

Place: Forest Farm near Asda, Coryton, Cardiff
Date: 18 January 2022.

[Ardea cinerea, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Grey heron]

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

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

Saker/Peregrine Falcon Hybrid

Falconiformes

Place: Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire
Date: 2 May 2022.

[Falco cherrug/peregrinus, Family Falconidae, Order Falconiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Saker falcon]

More Sedge Warblers

Passeriformes #1

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 10 May 2021.

Place: Abermawr, Pembrokeshire
Date: 21 June 2021.

Place: Marloes Mere, Pembrokeshire
Date: 22 June 2021.

Place: Central Path, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

Place: Trefin, Pembrokeshire
Date: 4 May 2022.

Place: Portnahaven, Islay, Scotland
Date: 9 June 2022.

[Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, Family Acrocephalidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Sedge warbler]

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

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

Selected Wood Pigeons

Columbiformes

Place: Lymington, New Forest
Date: 1 May 2016.

Place: Vendicari Nature Reserve, Sicily
Date: 25 May 2016.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 August 2018.

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

Place: Williton, Somerset
Date: 19 July 2021.

Place: Oakham, Rutland
Date: 2 November 2021.

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

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 December 2021.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 14 April 2022.

Place: Barge Canal, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 29 May 2022.

[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).

Cormorant Drying its Wings

Suliformes

Place: Leighton Moss, Lancashire
Date: 9 February 2017.

Place: West viewing platform, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 17 May 2018.

Place: River Taff near M4 Motorway, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 July 2020.

Place: Eight-Arch Bridge, Bosherton Lakes, Pembrokeshire
Date: 21 July 2020.

Place: Gyllyngvase beach, Falmouth, Cornwall
Date: 9 September 2020.

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

Place: River Taff on Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 November 2020.

Place: Cromer, Norfolk
Date: 26 September 2021.

Place: RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands, Cheshire
Date: 8 October 2021.

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

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

The sound of the 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).