Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Titchwell

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Titchwell - 2nd December 2025

We spent the morning at Titchwell and started off on the meadow trail looking for Firecrest and Chiffchaff. We got side tracked by news that the Bittern was showing well at Patty's Pool and had really good views.

We managed to find two Firecrest and several Chiffchaffs including at least one very pale 'tristris' individual.

There were plenty Robins prepared to get close, used to visitors picnicking and offering crumbs.

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.