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
    Yes. It has been a while. May 4th 2026 at 0200 hours. Tiny taxi skidded across the IPhone screen, over the bridge, through the village, heading our way. ...
  • Axe Estuary Ringing Group
    On Sunday 17th May, two of us turned up very early for a mist netting session in the Willows, an area which hadn't been ringed for quite a while. We set ...
  • Bardsey Wildlife
    A south-westerly wind of F6 held for much of the day and a sea state of four, visibility was good until 13:00 when light rain began and continued for the...
  • Bisham Barn Owl Group
    2026 has seen our earliest pulli ringing dates over the last 8 years for: Tawny Owl: April 25th (out of 18 records) Kestrel: May 16th (out of 141 recor...
  • 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
    *June 16th.* Around were 2 Cuckoos and a Short-eared Owl. A morning ringing session in East Dunes yielded 6 new birds: 2 Chiffchaff, a Chaffinch, 2 G...
  • Grampian Ringing Group
    The redpoll is an attractive small finch which breeds in Scotland, northern England and Wales. It was formerly split into three different species (lesser, ...
  • Heysham Bird Observatory
    A warm day but not a lot of sunshine. A SE breeze Middleton Nature Reserve - Janet Canada geese 13 over silently to the north Common Whitethroats Common D...
  • Hilbre Bird Observatory
    Weather: NW force 3 moderating force 1 in the afternoon After a windy few days, today was a pleasant surprise with light winds and slightly warmer. It ...
  • Landguard Bird Observatory Recent Sightings
    A Juvenile Marsh Tit (*Poecile palustris*), 7th site record with 5 of the previous from 16th to 22nd June. A clear morning, later becoming hazy and then...
  • Lower Derwent Valley NNR
    Over the past week, our Responsible Recreation Team have been busy replacing some of our signs across the reserve with new information boards, detailing ...
  • Nanjizal Ringing
    Overview This was the 30th year of ringing at Nanjizal, with the first ringing date of the year on 27th February and the final netting day on 22nd November...
  • NEWBURY RINGING GROUP
    *Location: *Thatcham Marsh LNR CES Visit 2026.05 *Session:* 07/06/2026 07:30 to 11:00hrs *Present: *JHW, IW, JL, CMD, PRY, IQ. *Weather*: Breezy, sunny peri...
  • 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
    It's been fairly standard late spring fair in the past eight days or so, usually with one highlight bird a day and very little else! The big news on 6t...
  • 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
    Over the last week, Madalina and I had been heading out on to the hills in Mid Wales to check if any Woodcock had made their way back some of our ringing...
  • South Notts Ringing Group
    The Barn Owl season has kicked off to an incredible start, with early breeding birds found in many boxes and brood sizes large. There has even been evide...
  • Teifi Ringing Group
    *Sedge Warblers* trickled through this May although no fall. 203 have been ringed this spring on the Teifi Marshes and 10 at Cors Caron. The biggest day...
  • The Hairy Birder
    As I start to write this in early June, we are very much in late spring. We had some warm weather just at the right time, as lots of bird species were hatc...
  • 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
    After the highs of 2024, we were sadly hit by the lows of 2025 as far as Barn Owls go. Whilst the very wet spring of 2024 saw a flush of early grass grow...
  • West Wilts Ringing Group
    Although it is only two weeks since our last visit to Ravensroost Wood, this session was on the schedule because the previous session had to be postponed o...
  • Wildlife and wildplaces
    *Bird of the year - Tawny Frogmouth* The Tawny Frogmouth *Podargus strigoides* has today been voted as the bird of the year in an open poll ran by the Gu...
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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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