Category Archives: Wales

More Forest Farm Nuthatches

Passeriformes #2

Place: Warden Centre hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 7 October 2017.




Place: Warden Centre hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 November 2017.


Place: Warden Centre hide, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 14 January 2018.



Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 31 January 2018.





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

More Forest Farm Jays

Passeriformes #1

Place: Bird hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 October 2017.





Place: Bird hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 18 December 2017.



Place: Bird hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 12 January 2018.



Place: Bird hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 26 March 2018.




Place: Bird hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 May 2018.



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




[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).

Various Goldfinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Albert Dock, Liverpool
Date: 16 April 2018.


Place: St.Nicholas Church Gardens, Liverpool
Date: 18 April 2018.


Place: Farm building, Skokholm
Date: 3 May 2018.



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




Place: Stirling, Scotland
Date: 5 June 2018.



Place: Haltwhistle campsite , Northumbria
Date: 30 June 2018.


Place: Caerfai Bay, Pembrokeshire
Date: 18 July 2018.


[Carduelis carduelis, Family Fringillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: European goldfinch]

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

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

Skokholm / Skomer Meadow Pipits

Passeriformes #3

Place: Mad Bay, Skokholm
Date: 1 May 2018.


Place: Farm, Skokholm
Date: 1-2 May 2018.







Place: The Well, Skokholm
Date: 3 May 2018.



Place: South Stream Valley, Skomer
Date: 17 July 2018.







[Anthus pratensis, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Meadow pipit]

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

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

Blackcap

Passeriformes #1

Place: Weobley Castle, Gower
Date: 9 August 2018.








[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).

Forest Farm Moorhen with Chicks

Gruiformes

Place: Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 April 2018.








Place: Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 25 April 2018.




Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 May 2018.



Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 23 July 2018.


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





[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).

Redwing

Passeriformes #2

Place: Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 19 January 2018.





Place: Tongwynlais Football Club Playing Fields, Cardiff
Date: 5 March 2018.



Place: Path between Sidford and Sidmouth, Devon
Date: 13 March 2018.


[Turdus iliacus, Family Turdidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Redwing]

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

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

Yellow Wagtail

Passeriformes #3

Place: Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 3 August 2018.





[Motacilla flava flavissima, Family Motacillidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Western yellow wagtail]

The sound of the yellow wagtail (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marc Schweitzer)

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

Local Long-tailed Tits

Passeriformes #2

Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 28 January 2017.






Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 30 January 2017.



Place: Front Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 5 January 2018.



Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 12 July 2018.





Place: Back Garden, Tongwynlais, Cardiff
Date: 23 July 2018.



[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).

Puffling

Charadriiformes

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).