Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Broadwater GP

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Broadwater GP - 8 October 2011

Another morning visit, but today just D and myself. A reasonably windy day but this site has a number of fairly sheltered areas and the breeze caused little difficulties. The first Blackbird was caught at the site and of the 53 caught, the main species other than the Tit species were five new Chiff-chaff and Goldcrest, and seven Chaffinch. About 20 House Martins were seen feeding over the site and six Crossbills flew over mid morning.

Blue Tit - adult

Great Tit - adult

Chiff-chaff 3

Totals:

Robin - 2 (2)
Dunnock - 0 (1)
Blackbird - 1

Chiff-chaff - 5
Goldcrest - 5 (1)
Blue Tit - 13 (4)
Great Tit - 8 (1)
Long-tailed Tit - 2
Treecreeper - 0 (1)
Chaffinch - 7

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.