Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Wraysbury GP

Sunday 3 August 2014

Wraysbury GP - 3 August 2014

Took a trip over to Wraysbury C6 to do some more Sylvia warblers this morning. We were expecting that numbers might be down as CES on C4 (only a few hundred metres away) got 46 birds yesterday and seemed to indicate that birds had cleared out while the weather was favourable.

We were able to play tapes and restricted ourselves to 7 nets that caught a total of 54 birds. Not many retraps and the balance between Whitethroat, Blackcap and Garden Warbler had definitely changed over the last few days. Linnet, Green Woodpecker and Lesser Whitethroat were a nice bonus.

4F Reed Warbler

3J Linnet

3J Goldfinch

4M Lesser Whitethroat

3 Garden Warbler

Totals: 50 ( 4)

Green Woodpecker - 1
Robin -1
Dunnock - 2 (1)
Song Thrush - 2
Reed Warbler - 1
Lesser Whitethroat - 1
Whitethroat - 13 (2)
Garden Warbler - 11
Blackcap - 6
Blue Tit - 1
Long-tailed Tit - 2 (1)
Chiff-chaff -2
Willow Warbler - 1
Goldfinch - 5
Linnet - 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.