Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Finemere Wood

Wednesday 29 June 2011

Finemere Wood - 29 June

A visit for Purple Emperor, at last paid off, some photos, though only after nearly treading on it, it flew the length of the track and eventually returned to the same spot and settled for about five minutes. It was eventually joined by two others though only briefly. Silver-washed Fritilleries only came to three along with two White Admirals.

Purple Emperor - male

Green-veined White

Afterwards a visit to Ivinghoe Beacon only produced three dark green Fritilleris and a quick visit to Black Park three each of White Admirals and Silver-washed Fritillary.

White Admiral

Silver-washed Fritillary

About us

Chris and Denise Lamsdell

We have both been birders for about 40 years based in South Bucks near the West London reservoir complexes.

Since September 2021 we have been based in North Norfolk. We have done our bit of twitching in the past, but with other priorities this has become a much reduced activity with a preference for seeing new birds where ever our travels take us.

We both have been ringing since 2005. Our local group was the Runnymede RG while based in Buckinghamshire. Since moving to Norfolk we have started a new group called The Iceni Bird Monitoring Group, aimed at increasing public engagement through colour ringing projects on Black-headed Gull, Turnstone and Lapwing. We ring at several sites including Sculthorpe Moor, Sandringham Estate, Deepdale Farm and also monitor bird populations for the Norfolk Rivers Trust. We do ringing at home and support with foreign projects when opportunities allow. Chris also has an interest in Butterflies and Dragonflies and contains his limited photographic skill to them.