Great Black Backed Gull P:52F has returned to Cornwall with a visit to Looe Island on the 26th June seen by assistant warden Claire Lewis.
Jon Ross and Claire
Lewis
Looe Island Warden and Warden's Assistant
Cornwall Wildlife Trust
Email: looeisland@cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk
Phone: 07974
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As this years Pulli start to fledge the full grown Gulls and Adults are returning to the traditional roost sites.
Great Black Backed Gull P:43A who has been absent since November 2022 with no proof of breeding this year, has returned to her normal roost in Perelle Bay Guernsey.
Seen there on 21st June by Wayne Turner.
As Part of the Break Water ringing we do ring the Herring Gulls a part of our dispersal study, in addition if Gulls come into our sphere we ring them as well.
Herring Gull 559 is one of these, ringed 2016 and released on fledging in Portland Harbour sighted on 2 occasions this year to the east at Swanage Dorset, seen there on the 13th June 2023 by Steve Kitchen.
Photos Steve Kitchen
As we have mentioned here in the past all sightings are very welcome of our Gulls, that's the way we all learn.
Some give regular sightings some wait up to 5 years before giving a sighting, then we have the exceptional.
Great Black Backed Gull P:30A is one of these exceptional Gulls, ringed June 2012 as a Pulli on the Break Waters one of our first back at the start of our project.
Seen on Guernsey on 4 occasions during 2013 then nothing until June 2016
The West Coast of France has proved popular over the years to our Gulls of all ages, both Herring and Great Black Backed.
Great Black Backed Gull P:10F continues this association with a visit on the 8th June to Pointe de Ponvins Morbihan seen by Anne-Sophie Hochet.
Having taken a photo of a GBBGull from Looe in Cornwall on the Chesil Bank West Bexington Dorset on the 10th May 2023.
On checking his photo Mike Morse found one of our GBBGull's just behind it, a return visit by P:26D to the Chesil, seen there previously by Mike July 2022 originally ringed in June 2020.
GBBGull P:62A has returned to Chard Quarry reservoir seen by Dave Helliar on the 19th April.
Since it was ringed in June 2014 it has been seen on a regular basis on the Axe Estuary Devon and at Chard Quarry which is on the border between Dorset and Somerset.
Mike Morse sighted 2 of our GBBGull's on the Chesil Bank at West Bexington Dorset, P:58F on the 7th April and P:04D on the 9th April. P:04D has been seen there on a previous occasion.
