Dave Murray spending some time on the Island of Guernsey sent in two sightings of our Great Black Backed Gulls.

  Great Black Backed Gull P:73C regular visitor to Guernsey photo Dave Murray, seen 10th September

                                                                  Photo Dave Murray

   Great Black Backed Gull P:78C ringed June 2018 seen in Guernsey soon after fledging then two sightings from Bolougne sur Mer France and now back on Guernsey seen 9th September

Continuing its stay in Northern France. Great Black Backed Gull P:38B has moved along the Normandy coast to the West being seen at Ver-sur-Mer on the 4th September, sighting by Griff Warilow.

Two new sightings of our Great Black Backed Gulls both continuing to stay in the same places as their last sightings.

Pajol Maxence sighted GBBG P:55C on two occasions on the Isle de Re Charente Maritime France.

First was on 22nd August at Chenal Villages and the second on the 28th August at Saint -Clement les Baleines.

Wayne Turner sighted GBBG P:43A once more back at Chouet Landfill on Guernsey on the 3rd September.

Following a visit to Dungeness Great Black Backed Gull P:49B has made a return visit to Portland seen on the 1st September by Roy Norris.

                                                          Roy Norris©

Great Black Backed gull P:38B is a well travelled Gull.

Ringed as a Pulli June 2015

Sightings from
Portland August 2015
The River Adur Shoreham Dec 2015
At Courseulles sur Mer Calvados August 2018
Portland November 2018
Back at Courseulles sur Mer Calvados August 2019

Sighting by Fabrice Gallien and forwarded to us by Jacques Coatmeur

The West Cornwall Ringing group have sent in a sighting of Great Black Backed Gull P:16B seen on the 21st August at Falmouth Docks, having moved along the Cornish coast from Coverack Cornwall.

Some colour ringed Gulls generate sightings on a regular basis, where others drop out of sight for several years with no news of their whereabouts.

One such Gull is Great Black Back P:32A ringed in June 2012 one of our first Gulls.

First sighting was from Omaha Beach Calvados France in August 2013, followed by a visit to Chouet Beach in Guernsey Channel Islands during October 2013. Then nothing until February 2016 when it visited the Otter Estuary in Devon, followed by a visit to the Axe Estuary also in Devon Sept 2016.

Then again nothing until 27th August 2019 when it was seen by Paul Davy on the Waltham Brooks Nature reserve in West Sussex.

Great Black Backed Gull P:78C has made a return visit to Bolougne sur mer seen on the beach there.

Sighting by Eric Petit- Bergham on the 21st August 2019, originally ringed in June 2018.

Previous sightings on Guernsey CI in November 2018 and Bolougne in June 2019.