Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Black Park

Monday, 4 July 2011

Black Park - 1 July 2011

A visit to Black Park proved very worth while with at least 10 Silver-washed Fritillaries, 6 White Admirals, Holly Blue and 3 Purple Emperors, including a female that came to ground.

Aquick visit afterwards to Horsenden Hill in the hope of coming across some White-letter Hairstreaks was suncessful but I did see the first Gatekeeper for the year.

Silver-washed Fritillary

White Admiral

Red admiral

Purple Emperor - female

Gatekeeper

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.