Lamsdell Bird Ringing and Wildlife Blog

A round up of our bird ringing activities (all birds ringed under licence from the British Trust for Ornithology with schedule one authority where appropriate), birding trips and other wildlife sorties within the UK and whenever we get chance, elsewhere.


Friday, 31 January 2025

Life Cycle Winter 2024-25, with article about our Water Pipit project

https://www.bto.org/our-science/publications/lifecycle/lifecycle-issue-14-winter-2024-25 

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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.

Merlin Ringing Supplies

We are Merlin Mist Nets and have a range of 6m, 9m, 12m & 18m nets. We have nets in a range of mesh sizes and also stock a range of denier options. www.merlinringingsupplies.co.uk

Birding

  • Arabian Birds
  • Birdlife Cyprus
  • OSME
  • Surfbirds

Butterflies

  • Butterfly Conservation
  • Cyprus Butterflies
  • UK Butterflies
  • Upper Thames BC

Ringing Schemes

  • AFRING
  • BTO - UK ringing scheme

Bird Observatories

  • Bardsey Bird Observatory
  • Fair Isle Bird Observatory
  • Filey Bird Observatory
  • Heysham Bird Observatory
  • Hilbre Bird Observatory
  • Holme Bird Observatory
  • Landguard Bird Observatory
  • North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory
  • Portland Bird Observatory
  • Sandwich Bay Observatory
  • Spurn Bird Observatory

Ringing Group websites

  • Cotswold Park RG
  • Gower Ringing Group
  • International Wader SG
  • North Thames Gull RG
  • Rye Meads RG
  • Sorby Breck RG
  • Stanford RG
  • Swale Wader RG
  • Tay RG
  • Wash Wader RG

UK Ringing Blogs

  • Another Bird Blog
    Caitlyn emailed me from Princeton ‘I am delighted to let you know about this one-of-a-kind illustrated guide to clouds, cloud formations, and the artists w...
  • Axe Estuary Ringing Group
    A team of six did our second mist netting session in front of the sand martin bank on Friday and followed that with some sand martin nestling ringing to...
  • Bardsey Wildlife
    A slightly breezier day, with the wind reaching Force 4 from the NNW. Generally grey, but still a nice day. Non-avian highlights were few, with *Grey Sea...
  • Bisham Barn Owl Group
    A Barn Owl ringed as a chick near to Cookham, Berks in 2024, was found dead near to Didcot in Oxfordshire, 37 km away and 195days later. Sadly many (up t...
  • Causeway Coast Ringing Group
    The 2019 Bann Estuary Bird and Ringing Report is now available to read. To check it out, follow the link below or click on the 2019 report link at the top ...
  • Gibraltar Point Bird Observatory
    *July 24th.* A cloudy start to the day with light rain developing in a fresh north-westerly wind. Early news involved a *Crane *and a *Roseate Tern* pr...
  • Grampian Ringing Group
    *Biometrics and movements of Redwings ringed in Grampian 1989 – 2024* *(Innes Sim)* Grampian Ringing Group ringed 701 Redwings between 1989 and 2024,...
  • Heysham Bird Observatory
    A warm sunny day with a west wind, *Middleton Nature Reserve * These shots from Janet. Some of the several *Copper-Tipped Longhorn moths*. See Tuesday's p...
  • Hilbre Bird Observatory
    Weather: E 4 at dawn, then ESE 5 later in the morning A very early start didn’t disappoint as large numbers of Manx Shearwater pass through as the tid...
  • Landguard Bird Observatory Recent Sightings
    The odd grounded warbler as we were met with fine drizzle pushing through from the Northwest again. These include 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler and 1 ...
  • Lower Derwent Valley NNR
    A fantastic effort was made in the *#LDV* recently by the Britcon families & staff, who are not only building our new NNR Base, but working alongside our...
  • Nanjizal Ringing
    Overview The nets were up on the 9th March. The year seemed to be a carbon copy of last year, with periods of poor weather hampering netting and the weathe...
  • NEWBURY RINGING GROUP
    *Location: *Thatcham Marsh LNR CES Visit 2025.08 *Session:* 12/07/2025 06:00 to 11:10hrs. *Present: *IW,JHW,JL,RAD,AB,DL. *Weather*: sunny, clear, bright, ve...
  • North Lancs Ringing Group
    Our colour ringed Nuthatch study is based in Jerry and Barbara's woodland edge garden in Silverdale North Lancashire and is in its fourth year. Our aim is...
  • North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory
    July started off strongly with a 2CY Long-tailed Skua on Tor Ness with the local Arctic Skuas, the bird showed well for the morning, but by the afternoo...
  • North Wilts Group - Wiltshire Ornithological Society
    *After a coupe of bonus non-CEs session where the catches had been very low, just over or just under 100 birds we were hoping that that the second half o...
  • pewit
  • Ruffled Feathers
    Many years ago in the late 1970s and early 1980s when I was a trainee bird ringer, I used to visit Wood Lane sand quarry to ring Sand Martins with my tra...
  • South Notts Ringing Group
    One of our birds has been in the news for breaking the UK longevity record: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ne7kg387o
  • Teifi Ringing Group
    Mid June saw the start of our *Storm Petrel* ringing at Strumble. Over two nights we handled 18 birds, one of which had been ringed on Skokholm last Augu...
  • The Hairy Birder
    Since my last post we have operated our garden light trap for moths just three times, mainly because of the weather, and having lots of 'birdie' things on....
  • Tring Ringing Group
    2019 Ringing Report Ringer: CK Species Ringed Re-trapped Total 2019 Total 2018 Blackbird 10 5 15 23 B...
  • West Cornwall Ringing Group
    It's that time of year again where we start to turn our attention to seabirds, with Kittiwakes starting to settle on cliffs always a lure. An afternoon c...
  • West Wilts Ringing Group
    After a very frustrating time trying to get out for a ringing session, the weekend was abysmal, Monday to Wednesday weren’t too bad – but they were forecas...
  • Wildlife and wildplaces
    *Pick of Iceland * Kirkjufell Fjaorargljufur Gullfoss Svartifoss Svartifoss Geyser Ice diamond Seal on ice Reynisfjara Beach, stacks Reynisfjara...
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Overseas Ringing blogs

  • Bird Banding in Bulgaria
  • ISring - the Isreal Ringing blog
  • Yoav Perlman's Birding Blog

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