Black-headed Gull 270A - Another resighting!

News came through yesterday, that a gull I ringed in December 2020, had been re sighted in The Netherlands!

The bird in question, 270A, was originally ringed at The Carrs, Warsop, Nottinghamshire on 22/12/2020. At the the time of ringing, it was aged as a 1st year bird. Here's a picture, taken in 2020.

270A

It hasn't been re sighted in the UK yet, mainly because we haven't been checking the wintering site!! There have, however, been 2 re sightings, both in The Netherlands, and both by the same observer, but 1 year apart! The first sighting was in Almere in 21st July 2022, and the second was last Thursday, 20th June 2024, also in Almere. Here's picture, courtesy of the finder, feeding on a landfill site!

270A in The Netherlands

I'll make sure I get to Warsop this winter, and hopefully, get a new sighting!

Last Gulls of 2020?

Today I was out with 3 members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group for a gull ringing session at The Carrs in Warsop again. With news that our areas are going into Tier 4 COVID restrictions from midnight tonight this will be our last ringing outing and my last chance to check gulls in 2020.

We were on site from 08:30 until 15:45 and managed to catch 1 new Black-headed Gull. The bird in question was an adult and was given the darvic ring 271A.

271A

Whilst there we also manged to re-sight 2 gulls that the group had previously ringed, namely 265A and 270A. Both birds had been ringed in December this year.

265A

270A

Gull Ringing - 22nd December 2020

Last Tuesday I managed to get out gull ringing for the first time this winter. I spent five hours at The Carrs in Warsop with members from Sorby Breck Ringing group and Birklands Ringing Group (all socially distanced of course). In total we caught five new Black-headed Gulls, to add to the darvic-ringing scheme, and I was lucky enough to ring four of them! The site is just short of 9km from Rufford, so hopefully, I'll pick some of these birds up, during the winter months. The new rings added were 266A - 270A.

266A (adult female)

267A