Sightings from Perelle Beach Guernsey thanks to Wayne Turner, all Great Black Backed Gulls.

P:43A on the 18th November. No list from Guernsey is complete with out this Gull.

P:24F on the 17th November

P:42B on the 18th November

Our first sighting from the Isle of Wight came in this week, Great Black Backed Gull P:59A was seen at Bembridge Harbour on the 21st November by Kevin Duncan.

Ringed originally in June 2012 sightings up to November 2015 from Guernsey, Cornwall & Calvados France then nothing until this sighting from Bembridge.

Great Black Backed Gull P:16F ringed this year is still favouring Weymouth Harbour, seen there on the 23rd November by Tom Gale.

Photo Tom Gale 

Not the normal type of photo of a GBBGull.

 Three sightings from this years Pulli ringed in June.

Metal ring read in the field Great Black backed Gull MA57418 ringed 29th June 2021 on the Portland Break Waters. Seen at Peverell Point, Swanage, Dorset on the 12th November 2021.

Great Black Backed Gull P:22F seen on the 17th November on the Gann Estuary, Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales  first sighting since ringing and our first from Wales.

                    Photo and sighting by Dave Astin

Great Black Backed Gull P:13F ringed June 29th 2021,  5 sightings at Perelle Beach Guernsey since ringing. The latest sighting has come from Port De Douarnenez, Brittany. Seen there by Sylvain Reyt on the 18th November.

 Latest list from Ian MacLean of Gulls on the Devon Axe Estuary.

GbbGull's 

P:88B seen 22nd October Axe regular with visits to Dawlish Devon Guernsey and Swanage Dorset.

P:04D seen 8th October 3rd sighting since ringing in 2019 all on the Axe

P:79C seen 22nd October  sightings from Otter Estuary Devon, Guernsey and the Axe Devon

Herring Gull 769 seen 24th October ringed locally

From Wayne Turner on Guernsey GBBGull P:13F was still present at Perelle on the 24th October.

                                                                   

Photo Wayne Turner

GBBGull P:24F has made a return visit to Perelle seen 28th October.

                                                                  Photo Wayne Turner

 Guernsey is still the place to see our Great Black Backed Gulls, Wayne Turner has sent us his latest sightings.

From this years fledgelings P:24F 3rd sighting and P:24F 4th sighting at Perelle Beach, both ringed on the same break water.

GBBG P:41C seen on the 18th October also at Perelle. A well travelled Gull since fledging in 2016 it has visited London and the surrounding Counties, Devon and Guernsey several times.

GBBG P:63D  seen also on the 18th October at Perelle, is a regular visitor to Guernsey

GBBG P:73C seen on the 18th October at Perelle has visited Guernsey on a regular basis since fledging in 2016

GBBG P:41C photo Wayne Turner

 Great Black Backed Gull P:83B was ringed in June 2015.Tthe only sightings have so far are from the southern part of Portland. 9 sightings so far. The latest on Portland was on the 9th October seen by Jim Rose.

                                                                     Photo Jim Rose

Seen on the same day 9th October, also on Portland was Great Black Backed Gull P:06D

Photo Jim Rose

In contrast P:06D ringed June 2019 has visited Alderney, Guernsey and now back on Portland.

 

 Ian MacLean sends us regular reports of our Colour ringed Gulls he sees on the Axe Estuary in Devon, this is his latest report.

P:79C seen 30th September a regular in Devon and Guernsey

P:08A seen 1st October a regular on the Axe since 2012

P:31A seen 2nd October a Devon regular

P:62A seen 2nd October a regular in Devon Cornwall and Somerset

Wayne Turner on Guernsey has sighted another of this years fledglings P:36C ringed in June 2021 and this is the first sighting a Perelle Beach on the 1st October.

                                                                Photo Wayne Turner

 Most of our sightings come from our Great Black Backed Gulls, when a sighting comes in from our Herring Gulls it is very welcome as are all sightings.

Sightings from Perelle Beach Guernsey sent in by Abby Oliveira and Wayne Turner.

P:13F seen on the 29th September & 1st October

P:43A seen on the 1st October

                                                            P:13F Photo Wayne Turner

Jim Rose sighted Herring Gull 591 at Lodmoor Weymouth on the 1st October.

Photo Jim Rose

Ringed June 2016 the only previous sighting came from Coverack Cornwall in 2018.