Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Leeuwarden area, Netherlands 16 & 17th August 2019

Sunday 25 August 2019

Leeuwarden area, Netherlands 16 & 17th August 2019

Unfortunately a few days of overcast, and often rainy for periods, with little sun produced very few active Odonata, and a visit to Leeuwarden early am on 17th resulted in us failing to locate the Pied Crow at its previous days location, but had moved to an adjacent street by the next day.

16th August.
Park Vijversburg

White Stork, a faily tame bird of which up to three feed around

the visitors and depart at odds times to roost eleswhere.

Grutte Wielen

Blue-tailed Damselfly

Broad Scarlet

Vagrant Darter

17th August.
Park Vijversburg

Vagrant Darter

Small Red-eyed Damselfly

Emerald Damselfly

Blue-tailed Damselfly

Red Admiral

Painted Lady

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.