Wayne Turner had another sighting of our Great Black Backed Gull P:73C at the old Chouet landfill on Guernsey CI.

                                           Photo Wayne Turner ©  sighted 25th June 2019

This Gull seems to like Guernsey as does Wayne.

Great Black Backed Gull P:61C was ringed  on the 28th June 2016 and that's the last we heard of it.

Until now an email from Mark Grantham (West Cornwall Ringing Group) gave us our first sighting of this particular Gull since then.

Seen at Southerly Point on the Lizard, Cornwall 20th June 2019, there are just 8 days to go to the anniversary of the date that we ringed it.

Great Black Backed Gull P:78C was ringed in June last year 2018 on the Portland Break Waters.

Seen at Rocquaine Bay Guernsey during November 2018 by Wayne Turner.

Now a new sighting from Jean Michel Sauvage on the 10th June 2019 at Boulogne sur mer, Pas de Calais France.

                                                     Photo Jean Michel Sauvage ©

Great Black Backed Gull P:46A ringed in June 2012 and sighted on Alderney Channel Islands later the same year.

Subsequently sighted during 2015 & 2016 on Looe Island Cornwall.

Two sightings from Down Derry Cornwall during 2017 both from Alan Payne.

P:46A has been resighted once more at Down Derry again by Alan Payne seen 29th May this year.

Tom Russell fishing 7 or 8 miles out in the Channel from Swanage Dorset is finding his Boat is becoming a magnet for our Great Black Backed Gulls, with two more visits over two seperate days.

23rd May P:95B ringed June 2015 a regular visitor to the South Devon coast and now back in Dorset.

24th May P:52B ringed June 2015 only previous sighting was at Ouessant Finistre Bretagne France until this sighting on Tom's boat.  Once more off Swanage in the Channel

Dave Bishop sighted Herring Gull 782  which was ringed in Weymouth October 2018 and now the first sighting on Lodmoor Nature Reserve 22nd May 2019.

One of our locally ringed Herring Gulls, was seen back at Radipole Lake Weymouth on the 20th May by Annabel Sharpe.

Ringed last year 2018 seen regularly on Radipole where it goes in between we don't know as yet.

                                                               Photo Annabel Sharpe ©

Tom Russel was out fishing off  Swanage and the Dorset Coast in the Channel on 13th May, two Great Black Backed Gulls landed on his Boat.

 For Great Black Backed Gull P:75B  this was the second time it has landed on Tom 's Boat.

Great Black backed Gull P:88B is well travelled visiting Devon, Guernsey and now Swanage Bay