Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Garden

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Garden - 5 Mar 2011

With the Siskin numbers building up as they often seem to in the garden during March we tend to try and make an effort to capitalise on the increased numbers as they can be reliable for controls and equally it is good to try and re-trap some old friends. Today's catch brought in new Siskin (10), Dunnock (1), Blue Tit (6) and Great Tit (1), plus 2 re-trap Siskin and one Blue Tit. One of the retrap Siskin was V791680, fist rung on 28/02/2008 when it was aged as a 6F then. Older females appear bright/greener than certainly 5s.

V791680, 6F

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.