Choughs from Pembrokeshire, Part 1

Passeriformes #1

Place: Deer Park, Marloes Peninsula, Pembrokeshire
Date: 16 July 2018.

Place: North Meadows, Ramsey Island
Date: 19 July 2018.

Place: Foot of Foel Fawr, Ramsey Island
Date: 19 July 2018.

Place: Porthlysgi, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire
Date: 11 July 2019.

Place: St. Justinian’s, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire
Date: 11 July 2019.

Place: St. Non’s, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire
Date: 11 July 2019.

[Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Red-billed chough]

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

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

More Jays from Forest Farm

Passeriformes #1

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

Place: Southern Meadows, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 March 2020.

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

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

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 November 2020.

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

Place: Southern Meadows, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 December 2021.

[Garrulus glandarius, Family Corvidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian jay]

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

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

Young Starling

Passeriformes #2

Place: Muchelney Abbey, Somerset
Date: 25 May 2013.

Place: Kenfig Pool near Port Talbot
Date: 1 June 2013.

Place: Seahouses, Northumbria
Date: 28 June 2018.

Place: Seahouses, Northumbria
Date: 29 June 2018.

Place: Salthouse, Norfolk
Date: 27 September 2021.

[Sturnus vulgaris, Family Sturnidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common starling]

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

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

Tundra Bean Goose

Anseriformes

Place: Prior’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 16 April 2021.

[Anser serrirostris, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Tundra bean goose]

The sound of the tundra bean goose (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mark Newsome)

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

Blackcaps

Passeriformes #1

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

Place: Howardian Local Nature Reserve, Cardiff
Date: 12 April 2021.

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

[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).

Little Egret at Forest Farm

Pelecaniformes

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 January 2021.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 16 February 2021.

[Egretta garzetta, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Little egret]

The sound of the little egret (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)

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

Coot with Young

Gruiformes

Place: Lathkill Dale, Over Haddon, Peak District, Derbyshire
Date: 28 May 2021.

Place: Lathkill Dale, Over Haddon, Peak District, Derbyshire
Date: 28 May 2021.

Place: Roath Park Lake, Cardiff
Date: 10 July 2021.

[Fulica atra, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian coot]

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

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

Selected Grey Wagtails

Passeriformes #3

Place: River Tummel, Perth & Kinross, Scotland
Date: 7 June 2018.

Place: Mottisfont, Hampshire
Date: 28 December 2019.

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

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

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 January 2021.

[Motacilla cinerea, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Grey wagtail]

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

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

Greater White-fronted Goose

Anseriformes

Place: Prior’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 16 April 2021.

[Anser albifrons, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Greater white-fronted goose]

The sound of the greater white-fronted goose (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Matthias Feuersenger)

Distribution and sightings of the greater white-fronted goose across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Various Nuthatches

Passeriformes #2

Place: Lydford Gorge, Devon
Date: 23 April 2019.

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

Place: RSPB Ynys-hir visitor centre, Ceredigion
Date: 22 November 2020.

Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 2 December 2020.

[Sitta europaea, Family Sittidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian nuthatch]

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

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