Category Archives: Wales

Grey Herons from Forest Farm, Part 1

Pelecaniformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 April 2014.




Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 15 August 2017.




Place: Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 April 2018.







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


Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 August 2018.




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




[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).
Distribution and sightings of the grey heron across the British Isles

Cormorant with Filoplumes

Suliformes

Place: River Taff Upstream of Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 February 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).
Distribution and sightings of the cormorant across the British Isles

Sedge Warblers on Bardsey Island

Passeriformes #1

Place: Ringing station, Bird Observatory, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 19 May 2019.



Place: Ty Pellaf Withy, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 20 May 2019.








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

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

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

Redshanks from Anglesey

Charadriiformes

Place: Penrhos, Holy Island, Anglesey
Date: 22 September 2020.












Place: Aberffraw, Anglesey
Date: 25 September 2020.





[Tringa totanus, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common redshank]

The sound of the redshank (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ruud van Beusekom)

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

Courting Wood Pigeons

Columbiformes

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 18 March 2019.




Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 20 March 2019.




[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).
Distribution and sightings of the wood pigeon across the British Isles

Red Kite Feeding Time, Part 2

Accipitriformes

Place: Bwlch Nant yr Arian feeding station, Ceredigion
Date: 1 April 2021.
















[Milvus milvus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Red kite]

The sound of the red kite (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Dawid Jablonski)

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

Red Kite Feeding Time, Part 1

Accipitriformes

Place: Bwlch Nant yr Arian feeding station, Ceredigion
Date: 23 November 2020.





















[Milvus milvus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Red kite]

The sound of the red kite (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Dawid Jablonski)

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

Various Chiffchaffs

Passeriformes #2

Place: Pen Dinas, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Date: 2 April 2021.





Place: River Ystwyth, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Date: 2 April 2021.



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






[Phylloscopus collybita, Family Phylloscopidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common chiffchaff]

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

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

Juvenile Bullfinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal near Pencelli, Powys
Date: 29 August 2020.








[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).
Distribution and sightings of the bullfinch across the British Isles

Diseased Great Tit

Passeriformes #1

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 30 June 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).
Distribution and sightings of the great tit across the British Isles