Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Wraysbury

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Wraysbury - 14 August 2012

While Chris had to go to work, I was at Wraysbury for an early start. This site plays host to 1000s of Sylvia and Phylloscopus warblers on autumn migration and additional midweek sessions are organised through September to monitor the birds. This was to be the first of the extra sessions.

We had 10 nets up, in single and double configurations and 7 ringers. It was a promising start with the best catches being Garden Warbler, 28 new and 5 re-traps, followed by Whitethroat, 18 new and 4 re-traps. The totals as follows:-

Totals: 92 (21)

Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Dunnock 2 (1)
Robin 5
Blackbird 1
Song Thrush 2

Lesser Whitethroat 1 (1)
Whitethroat 18 (4)
Garden Warbler 28 (5)
Blackcap 24 (8)
Chiff-chaff 1
Willow Warbler 5 (1)
Blue Tit 1
Great Tit 2
Magpie 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.