Category Archives: Wales

Still More Forest Farm Jays

Passeriformes #1

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 10 November 2018.


Place: Longwood Nature Reserve, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 November 2018.



Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 16 December 2018.





Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 4 January 2019.



Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 January 2019.


Place: Meadow Near Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 January 2019.



Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 6 April 2019.




Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 May 2019.




Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 24 July 2019.



[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).

Greenland Greater White-fronted Goose

Anseriformes

Place: Bird Pens, Llanelli Wetland Centre
Date: 7 October 2018.




[Anser albifrons flavirostris, 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 Greenland greater white-fronted goose across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Goldcrest

Passeriformes #2

Place: Plas Newydd, Anglesey
Date: 21 November 2018.


Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 March 2019.



[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 Long-tailed Tits

Passeriformes #2

Place: Bute Park, Cardiff
Date: 19 October 2016.


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



Place: Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 8 February 2018.


Place: Largo das Caldas, Chaves, northern Portugal
Date: 30 August 2018.


Place: Hedge near allotments, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2018.


Place: Path near River Taff, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 13 November 2018.


Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 19 December 2018.




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


Place: Silchester Roman City, Hampshire
Date: 5 March 2019.


[Aegithalos caudatus, Family Aegithalidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Long-tailed tit]

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

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

Puffin Carrying Sand Eels

Charadriiformes

Place: Inner Farne, Farne Islands, Northumbria
Date: 29 June 2018.














Place: The Wick, Skomer
Date: 17 July 2018.













[Fratercula arctica, Family Alcidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Atlantic puffin]

The sound of the puffin (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Hans Petter Kristoffersen)

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

Various Black-tailed Godwit

Charadriiformes

Place: Marismas del Odiel, Andalucia
Date: 17 June 2015.


Place: Wetland Centre Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
Date: 24 July 2016.




Place: Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 8 November 2017.






Place: Lymington Nature Reserve, New Forest
Date: 28 December 2018.





[Limosa limosa, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black-tailed godwit]

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

Distribution and sightings of the black-tailed godwit across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of black-tailed godwit across the British Isles

Water Rail at Parc Slip

Gruiformes

Place: Parc Pond, Parc Slip Nature Reserve, Aberkenfig, Bridgend
Date: 8 January 2019.









[Rallus aquaticus, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Water rail]

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

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

Peregrine on the Clock Tower

Falconiformes

Place: Cardiff City Hall Clock Tower, Cardiff
Date: 23 March 2019.
















[Falco peregrinus, Family Falconidae, Order Falconiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Peregrine falcon]

The sound of the peregrine falcon (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Tomas Belka)

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

Moorhen Eating a Newt

Gruiformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 31 March 2019.













[Gallinula chloropus, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common moorhen]

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

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

Local Blackbirds

Passeriformes #2

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 23 September 2012.




Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 3 March 2018.



Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 5 March 2018.


Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 8 April 2018.



Place: Melingruffydd Feeder, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 27 February 2019.



Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 27 March 2019.


Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 28 March 2019.



[Turdus merula, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common blackbird]

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

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