Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Horsenden Hill and Iver area

Thursday, 21 July 2011

Horsenden Hill and Iver area - 15 July 2011

In between periods of overcast weather that seems to be the norm, as it was fairly bright and sunny a quick visit to a few local potential White-letter Hairstreak sites failed to materialised the sought after species. if the weather still like this, potentially as this is species that is not often stumbled across lower down, I might fail to get to photograph any this year, though the odd one has probably been seen higher up on the odd occasion, but with camera in hand it has not been possible to confirm the ID 100%.

Speckled Wood

Small Copper

Gatekeeper - Iver

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.