I've had around six
Black-headed Gull ring reads over the last few weeks, all white ringed birds of varying ages ringed as chicks in both Gloucestershire and Berkshire. I've had the replies from the ringers this weekend, and one of the records was particularly amazing. I saw it as I was locking the hides at the end of the day and just managed to digi-bin in - I had no chance of reading it with just looking through the binoculars.
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| White 20S4 |
It was ringed on the 7th June at a breeding colony at Hosehill Lake LNR in West Berkshire, and was last seen there just the day before I saw it. It's the project's earliest ever long distant movement for a juvenile.
There's been 20 or 30
Mediterranean Gulls around at the moment, two of which I've been able to read the rings of. Both of them were of the same age and were ringed at the same breeding colony in Calais, France, green 8M0 being a bird I saw off Llanelli beach last autumn.
The adult
Little Gull was in front of the Peter Scott hide on Tuesday morning, the only other bird of note during the last week.
