Category Archives: Places

African Grey Hornbill

Bucerotiformes

Place: Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire
Date: 2 May 2022.





[Lophoceros nasutus, Family Bucerotidae, Order Bucerotiformes, Wikipedia Entry: African grey hornbill]

The sound of the African grey hornbill (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Lynette Rudman)

Selected Redshanks

Charadriiformes

Place: Monk’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, East of Newport, Gwent
Date: 16 September 2020.


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


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




Place: Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk
Date: 28 September 2021.



Place: Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk
Date: 28 September 2021.


Place: Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
Date: 3 March 2022.


Place: Orford Ness, Suffolk
Date: 2 October 2022.


[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

Black Vulture

Cathartiformes

Place: Swansea Bay, South Wales
Date: 2 July 2022.


[Coragyps atratus, Family Cathartidae, Order Cathartiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Black vulture]

The sound of the redshank (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Antonio Silveira)

Stock Doves

Columbiformes

Place: Bird Hide #1, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 5 April 2022.



Place: Glamorganshire Canal, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 28 April 2022.


Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 17 December 2022.



Place: Bird Hide #2, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 January 2023.



[Columba oenas, Family Columbidae, Order Columbiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Stock dove]

The sound of the stock dove (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)

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

Selected Herring Gulls, Part 2

Charadriiformes

Place: Oban, Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Date: 24 August 2021.


Place: Llangrannog, Ceredigion
Date: 4 March 2022.


Place: Porthgain, Pembrokeshire
Date: 4 May 2022.




Place: Scalasaig, Colonsay, Scotland
Date: 14 June 2022.


Place: Tobermory, Mull, Scotland
Date: 19 June 2022.


Place: Rothesay Castle, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Date: 21 June 2022.





Place: Slea Head, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
Date: 7 September 2022.




Place: Doneen Pier, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
Date: 7 September 2022.


[Larus argentatus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: European herring gull]

The sound of the herring gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)

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

Selected Herring Gulls, Part 1

Charadriiformes

Place: West coast, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Date: 18 May 2019.


Place: West Bay, Dorset
Date: 7 March 2020.






Place: Looe, Cornwall
Date: 7 September 2020.


Place: Falmouth, Cornwall
Date: 9 September 2020.




Place: Coast path near Moelfre, Anglesey
Date: 23 September 2020.


Place: Morfa Bychan, Llyn peninsula, Gwynedd
Date: 7 December 2020.


Place: Campsite, Lundy
Date: 29 June 2021.


Place: Caerfai Bay campsite, Pembrokeshire
Date: 15 July 2021.



[Larus argentatus, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: European herring gull]

The sound of the herring gull (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Stuart Fisher)

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

Dabbling Mallards

Anseriformes

Place: Derwent Reservoir, Peak District National Park
Date: 29 July 2020.







Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 19 September 2021.



Place: River Taff at Radyr Weir, Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 11 April 2022.



[Anas platyrhynchos, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Mallard]

The sound of the mallard (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Matthias Feuersenger)

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

Selected Greylag Geese

Anseriformes

Place: Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve, Blackpool, Lancashire
Date: 26 February 2018.




Place: River Thames near Streatley-on-Thames, Berkshire
Date: 30 April 2019.


Place: Ravenspoint, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
Date: 8 June 2019.


Place: Lake Windmere near Wray Castle, Lake District
Date: 7 October 2020.



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



Place: Cragside Estate, Rothbury, Northumbria
Date: 9 June 2021.


Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 18 November 2021.


Place: Cheddar Reservoir, Cheddar, Somerset
Date: 14 March 2022.


Place: Greylake RSPB, Somerset Levels
Date: 2 April 2022.


[Anser anser, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Greylag goose]

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

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

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).
Distribution and sightings of the jay across the British Isles