Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Wraysbury GP ringing session

Sunday 14 August 2011

Wraysbury GP ringing session - 13 August 2011

A team session at Wraysbury (no CES) utilising the south side aiming for Sylvia migrants was relatively successful with nearly 200 new birds being caught. The threatened rain was their on route and by the time everyone was on site had stopped, but it did not look good, but despite this we set up and fortunately it actually cleared, and by mid day was getting quite warm. The start due to the dampness was slow with the best catches coming mid morning.

Treecreeper - 3

Lesser Whitethroat - 3

Totals (198 new 40 retraps):

Dunnock - 3

Robin - 5 (2)

Blackbird - 1

Song Thrush - 3

Sedge Warbler - 1

Reed Warbler - 1 (1)

Lesser Whitethroat - 5 (1)

Whitethroat - 57 (17)

Garden Warbler - 25 (7)

Blackcap - 63 (5)

Chiff-chaff - 13 (1)

Willow Warbler - 7

Long-tailed Tit - 2 (4)

Blue Tit - 8 (1)

Great Tit - 3

Treecreeper - 1 (1)

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.