Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Wraysbury GP

Thursday, 23 July 2020

Wraysbury GP - 21st July 2020

A forecast for low wind, so we arrived at 6am and seeing quite a lot of activity opted to erect just 6 nets since there was only the two of us and it was likely to get quite hot in the late morning. Catching was steady until just before 10am or so when birds using the site became much less obvious. We were soon reining in and had packed up and left the site by 11:15am.
Whitethroats were notable in the fact that not a single adult was processed all morning, New Garden Warbler numbers exceeded that of new Blackcaps and still no influx of Willow Warblers. There was, however, a single Sedge Warbler.

Sedge Warbler

Garden Warbler

Total: 77 (19)

Dunnock - 2 (3)

Robin - 1

Blackbird - 2

Song Thrush - 4

Reed Warbler - 1

Sedge Warbler - 1

Whitethroat - 17 (4)

Garden Warbler - 21 (4)

Blackcap - 20 (8)

Chiffchaff - 3

Blue Tit - 1

Great Tit - 2

Goldfinch - 1

Greenfinch - 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.