Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Wraysbury GP

Saturday, 8 August 2015

Wraysbury GP - 7 August 2015

Another productive morning on C6. Just CL & DKL with five nets added another 117 captures to the totals for the site. Blackcaps and Whitethroats were in roughly equal numbers today with Garden Warblers still around but far fewer Chiffchaffs about.

Retrap 4F Blackcap L769890 - first recapture since 3/09/2011

Lesser Whitethroats seem to be staying about with three from previous sessions retrapped and an additional two.

Z527441 retrap Lesser Whitethroat

Of the 60 or so Starlings coming to feed on the blackberries, only one, that just happened to be ringed already, was caught.

LE42711 control Starling

Totals: 98 (19)

Dunnock -1
Song Thrush - 1
Reed Warbler -3
Lesser Whitethroat - 2 (3)
Whitethroat - 33 (9)
Garden Warbler - 20 (2)
Blackcap - 33 (3)
Chiff-chaff -1 (1)
Blue Tit -3
Starling - 0 (1)
Goldfinch - 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.