Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Garden

Saturday, 30 June 2012

Garden - 30 June 2012

The first ringing in the garden for some considerable time. Recently we have been having a lot juvenile Blue and Great Tits coming in, supported by a reasonable numbers of Gold and Greenfinches. There have also been a family of Great Spotted Woodpeckers fairly regular on the peanut feeder. Unfortunately the garden is relatively small in depth and the net very quickly puts birds off coming, often at times makes us wonder why we put it up. Only four birds were caught, including on the juvenile Woodpeckers.

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 3

Total: 4

Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Blue Tit -2

Great Tit -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.