I’ve recently been enjoying using the Merlin app to identify bird sounds. It started when I was walking at Cors Caron in November and there was quite the noise coming from some water birds. They were too far away to see well, but the noise was very distinctive so I got the app and checked what it thought they were. They turned out to be Widgeon. [If you click the link (to the RSPB page about them) you can play the sound of their call so you’ll know what I mean about distinctive!]
Since then I often get the app out to identify what’s around me. Some of the birds are ones I already recognised, but I have discovered some that I had no idea about. I thought I’d make a list of what I have heard and perhaps over the year I’ll identify some more. I also see lots of birds in our garden so I’m including those too.
Here’s what I’ve seen/heard over the last couple of months either at home or at Cors Caron:
- Blackbird
- Blue Tit
- Bullfinch
- Carrion Crow
- Chaffinch
- Cormorant
- Dunnock
- Eurasian Coot
- Goldcrest
- Goldfinch
- Great Spotted Woodpecker (we have one who likes our peanut feeder in the garden so we see him quite regularly)
- Great Tit
- House Sparrow
- Jackdaw
- Jay
- Little Grebe
- Long-tailed Tit
- Magpie
- Nuthatch
- Raven
- Red Kite
- Robin
- Tawny Owl (heard from my bed a few weeks ago!)
- Widgeon
- Wren
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