Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Tring area

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Tring area - 13 February 2012

In the afternoon we did a quick trip up to Tring visiting Startops End and Marsworth reservoirs and nearby Weston Turville reservoir, picking up Smew, Water Pipit and Snow Bunting at Startops but missing Bittern at the other two sites.

Startops End reservoir

Snow Bunting

Robin

Weston Turville reservoir at dusk

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.