Category Archives: Somerset Levels

Great Crested Grebe Preparing the Nest

Podicipediformes

Place: Approach to Tor View hide, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 1 April 2022.




[Podiceps cristatus, Family Podicipedidae, Order Podicipediformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great crested grebe]

The sound of the great crested grebe (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)

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

Shovelers

Anseriformes

Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 4 August 2020.



Place: Prior’s Lagoon, Goldcliff Lagoons, east of Newport, Gwent
Date: 10 November 2020.




Place: Tor View hide, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 1 April 2022.




[Spatula clypeata, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern shoveler]

The sound of the shoveler (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Paul Driver)

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

More Great Crested Grebes

Podicipediformes

Place: Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent
Date: 4 July 2016.






Place: Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve
Date: 12 November 2016.






Place: Noah’s Hide, Shapwick Heath, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.



Place: Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve, Cardiff
Date: 17 July 2020.





[Podiceps cristatus, Family Podicipedidae, Order Podicipediformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great crested grebe]

The sound of the great crested grebe (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Marco Dragonetti)

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

More Great White Egrets

Pelecaniformes

Place: Tower Hide, Shapwick Heath, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.




Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey
Date: 4 August 2020.



Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey
Date: 7 August 2020.










[Ardea alba, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great egret]

The sound of the great white egret (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Tony Fulford)

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

Black-tailed Godwits

Charadriiformes

Place: Lytham Hall, Lytham, Lancashire
Date: 26 February 2018.







Place: Ribble Estuary, Lytham, Lancashire
Date: 26 February 2018.






Place: Meare Heath, Shapwick Heath, Somerset Levels
Date: 17 May 2018.



Place: Low Newton-by-the Sea, Northumbria
Date: 29 June 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 the black-tailed godwit across the British Isles

Various Lapwing

Charadriiformes

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






Place: Shapwick Heath, Somerset Levels
Date: 11 October 2016.





Place: Morecambe Bay, Lancashire
Date: 9 February 2017.


Place: Seaton Wetlands, Devon
Date: 14 March 2018.



Place: Low Newton-by-the Sea, Northumbria
Date: 29 June 2018.


[Vanellus vanellus, Family Charadriidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern lapwing]

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

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

Marsh Harriers in the Somerset Levels

Accipitriformes

Place: Avalon hide, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.


Place: Tower Hide, Shapwick Heath, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.



Place: 70 Acres Hide, Shapwick Heath, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.








[Circus aeruginosus, Family Accipitridae, Order Accipitriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Western marsh harrier]

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

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

Various Tufted Duck

Anseriformes

Place: Creswell Crags, Derbyshire
Date: 23 March 2018.


Place: Avalon Hide, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 17 May 2018.


Place: Loch An Tiumpan, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
Date: 10 June 2019.



Place: Winkworth Arboretum, Busbridge, Surrey
Date: 2 August 2019.



Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey
Date: 25 December 2019.


[Aythya fuligula, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Tufted duck]

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

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

Various Shovelers

Anseriformes

Place: Sir Peter Scott Hide, Llanelli Wetland Centre
Date: 7 October 2018.




Place: Roath Park Lake, Cardiff
Date: 30 October 2018.




Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey
Date: 27 September 2019.



Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey
Date: 28 September 2019.







Place: West Viewing Platform, Ham Wall, Somerset Levels
Date: 23 February 2020.


[Spatula clypeata, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern shoveler]

The sound of the shoveler (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Paul Driver)

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

Various Chaffinches

Passeriformes #3

Place: Arlington Court near Barnstaple, Devon
Date: 27 June 2009.


Place: Orgiva, near Granada, Andalucia
Date: 8 June 2015.


Place: Shapwick Moor, Somerset Levels
Date: 11 October 2016.









Place: Hinton Ampner estate, Hampshire
Date: 7 April 2017.






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