Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog: Broadwater GP

Friday 1 January 2021

Broadwater GP - 28th December 2020

On a frosty morning we decided to get some fresh air and our permitted exercise at Broadwater. Apart from being able to ring, it's a better option for staying away from people than our local country park that has been attracting visitors from outer London since well before the tier 4 restrictions came into force.

We did rather better than we expected, although there were a great deal of tits and many of those were retraps. The best birds were a handful of Redwing and a single wintering Chiffchaff.

Juvenile Redwing

Adult male Blue Tit

Total: 27 (13)

Blackbird - 2
Redwing - 5
Chiffchaff - 1
Goldcrest - 2
Long-tailed Tit - 2
Blue Tit - 11 (8)
Great Tit - 4 (5)

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.