Showing posts with label Colour Ringing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colour Ringing. Show all posts
Sunday, 23 October 2022

Gull Ringing 22nd October 2022

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Yesterday, I managed to get out gull ringing with Sorby Breck Ringing Group for the first time since late 2020. We spent the day at Center P...
Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Gulls at Rufford - 24th November 2019

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After the ringing session on Sunday I had  an hour at Rufford Abbey CP with the gulls. In total I saw 5 colour/darvic ringed birds. Three ...
Saturday, 16 November 2019

Alvaston Park - 16th November 2019

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A couple of weeks ago I was in Alvaston Park, and spotted the Danish ringed Black-headed Gull VA4073, (see here ). I was back there again to...
Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Black-headed Gull 230A

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I was at Rufford Country Park on Sunday to check on the Black-headed Gulls . Two familiar rings were read, 206A (British-ringed) and EUM3 (D...
Monday, 26 August 2019

Herring Gull EPM

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Jayne and I were in Llandudno over the weekend. Whilst there we spotted a Herring Gull with a colour ring, EPM. I recognised it straight aw...

Polish BH Gull at Rufford

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Last Thursday (22nd August), I was back at Rufford CP in Nottinghamshire to check on the Black-headed Gulls again. There were still only ab...
Thursday, 15 August 2019

Black-headed Gull EA32375 in Bakewell

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Yesterday, Luke and I went across to Bakewell to see if we could find any ringed Black-headed Gulls . There were only about 20 gulls there, ...
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Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Colour-ringed Mediterranean Gulls - Cornwall 2019

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Last week, whilst in Cornwall I managed to see 2 colour-ringed Mediterranean Gulls on the RSPB's Hayle Estuary reserve.The first bird,...
Monday, 15 July 2019

Black-headed Gulls - Winter begins!!

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I went to Bakewell on Saturday to see if there were any Black-headed Gulls back from their breeding grounds. There were about 20 birds pres...
Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Black-headed Gull 2N78

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I wasn't expecting to find anymore ringed Black-headed Gulls this winter, so I was very surprised (and excited!) to find this beautiful...
Sunday, 10 March 2019

BHG EUM3 still around, and a new friend

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I spent half an hour at Rufford Country Park this afternoon (in the wind, rain, hail and sunshine!) to see if any Black-headed Gulls were s...
Monday, 25 February 2019

Colour-ringed Turnstones - 22nd February 2019

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I first reported colour ringed Turnstones in Scarborough Harbour back in 2014, and have seen them in most years ever since. Whilst there on...
Sunday, 24 February 2019

Darviced Herring Gulls

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On Friday 22nd February, whilst in Scarborough, I saw 2 adult Herring Gulls , each carrying a yellow darvic ring, and a metal BTO ring. Th...
Friday, 22 February 2019

Lithuanian Black-headed Gull in Bakewell

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Back in November 2017 I saw a Lithuanian-ringed  Black-headed Gull with a metal ring in Bakewell. At the time I only managed to get the fir...
Monday, 4 February 2019

More Darvic'ed Black-headed Gulls!

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This winter has been phenomenal for the number of darvic and metal-ringed Black-headed Gulls that me and my nephew, Luke, have been able to...
Monday, 14 January 2019

Czech-ringed Black-headed Gull

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On Sunday I went down to Derby to see if I could find my first ringed Black-headed Gull of 2019. I started at Derby River Gardens, where ...
Monday, 7 January 2019

Linacre Ringing - 5th January 2019

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I was down at Linacre on Saturday morning for the first ringing session of 2019 with 5 members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group . As we set up t...
Wednesday, 26 December 2018

Linacre WeBS Count - December 2018

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Luke and I were down at Linacre on Monday morning to carry out this month's (belated) WeBS walk. We arrived on site just as it was get...
Sunday, 2 December 2018

Norwegian and Swedish Black-headed Gulls

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I was back in Alvaston Park, Derby again today, looking at..... yes, you've guessed it.. Black-headed Gulls . There were still about 100...
Sunday, 2 September 2018

Darvic'ed Black-headed Gull in Bakewell

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Following the Swedish ringed Black-headed Gull in Bakewell (see here ) I decided to go back again on Thursday (30th) to see if I could see ...