Great Tits

Passeriformes #1

Place: Lower Town of Mystras, Laconia, Greece
Date: 4 September 2019.

Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 30 June 2020.

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

Place: Packwood House, Warwickshire
Date: 28 March 2022.

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

Place: RSPB Visitor Centre, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 19 April 2023.

Place: Viewing Platform #1, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 20 April 2023.

[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).

Selected Wheatears, Part 2

Passeriformes #2

Place: Levant Mine, Trewellard, Cornwall
Date: 20 April 2019.

Place: Tyrins, Greece
Date: 1 September 2019.

Place: Stiperstones National Nature Reserve, Shropshire
Date: 11 August 2020.

Place: Hadrian’s Wall near Sycamore Gap, Northumbria
Date: 12 June 2021.

Place: Coast Path between St. Justinians and Porthclais, Pembrokeshire
Date: 3 May 2022.

Place: The Wick, Skomer
Date: 5 July 2022.

Place: Non’s Chapel, St.David, Pembrokeshire
Date: 11 August 2022.

Place: Downpatrick Head, County Mayo, Ireland
Date: 1 September 2022.

Place: Coast path between St. Justinians and Porthlysgi Bay, Pembrokeshire
Date: 26 April 2023.

[Oenanthe oenanthe, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern wheatear]

The sound of the wheatear (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Herman van Oosten)

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

Jays from Greece

Passeriformes #1

Place: Camping The Cave, Kastraki, Greece
Date: 24 August 2019.

Place: Camping Blue Dolphin, Corinth, Greece
Date: 29 August 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).

Selected Little Egrets, Part 1

Pelecaniformes

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

Place: Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 8 February 2018.

Place: Keyhaven, New Forest
Date: 11 April 2018.

Place: Harnham Water Meadows, Salisbury
Date: 24 December 2018.

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

Place: Gialova Lagoon, Messenia, Greece
Date: 10 September 2019.

Place: Kalogera Lagoon, Achaia, Greece
Date: 15 September 2019.

Place: London Zoo, London
Date: 9 October 2019.

[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).

Selected Stonechats

Passeriformes #2

Place: Coast path near Marloes, Pembrokeshire
Date: 29 April 2018.

Place: Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Bridgend County Borough
Date: 15 May 2018.

Place: Burges Island, Llanmadoc, Gower
Date: 22 July 2018.

Place: Rest Bay, Porthcawl
Date: 25 July 2019.

Place: Ancient Messini, Greece
Date: 9 September 2019.

Place: Conwy Mountain, North Wales
Date: 29 September 2020.

Place: Nash Point, Vale of Glamorgan
Date: 2 November 2020.

Place: Porth Neigwl, Llyn peninsula, Gwynedd
Date: 5 December 2020.

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

[Saxicola torquata, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common stonechat]

The sound of the stonechat (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Herman van Oosten)

Distribution and sightings of the stonechat 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).

Tree Sparrow in Greece

Passeriformes #3

Place: Nicopolis, Preveza, Greece
Date: 26 August 2019.

[Passer montanus, Family Passeridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian tree sparrow]

The sound of the tree sparrow (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jarek Matusiak)

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

Blue Tit Winkling Out a Grub

Passeriformes #1

Place: Camping Alfios, Olympia, Greece
Date: 14 September 2019.

[Cyanistes caeruleus, Family Paridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian blue tit]

The sound of the blue tit (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stein Ø. Nilsen)

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

Yellow-legged Gull

Charadriiformes

Place: Nora, Sardinia
Date: 14 June 2017.

Place: Camping Fusina, Venice, Italy
Date: 20 August 2019.

Place: Monemvasia, Greece
Date: 6 September 2019.

Place: Brindisi, Italy
Date: 18 September 2019.

[Larus michahellis, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Yellow-legged gull]

The sound of the yellow-legged gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)

Distribution of the yellow-legged gull across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

Eastern Black-eared Wheatear

Passeriformes #2

Place: Ancient Mycenae, Argolis, Greece
Date: 2 September 2019.

Place: Ancient Messini, Messenia, Greece
Date: 9 September 2019.

[Oenanthe melanoleuca, Family Muscicapidae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eastern black-eared wheatear]

The sound of the Eastern black-eared wheatear (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Jerome Fischer)

Distribution of the Eastern black-eared wheatear across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).