Alan Payne has had another sighting of GBBGull P:46A on the 27th May near to Looe Cornwall at Downderry still in the same area as the day before.

Herring Gull 635 ringed June 2016 on the Break Water previously seen on the Axe Estuary Devon by Ian McLean was sighted at Lodmoor RSPB Reserve Weymouth 22nd May in the Gull roost not far from its fledging site.

Ian McLean sent in his weekly list of our Gulls from the Axe Estuary GBBGull P:64B seen 27th May a regular on the Axe and a GBBG ringed by us last June but has a Herring Gull Darvic B/W 626 seen also on the 27th May.

Even with the best efforts with these large Gulls, errors do occur but they are extremely rare. There is a 0.5mm difference in the inner diameter of the rings.

Two GBBGull's sat on roof in Seaton Cornwall may not seem very exciting, but to our fledgling Gull project ( now in its 7th year with Herring Gull's and 6th year with GBBGull's ) it possibly is.

Why possibly?

It is the first sighting we have received to date seen on 26th May 2017, of two Gull's giving the observer Alan Payne the impression they are a pair.

Our Gull P:46A ringed June 2012, so now an adult appeared smaller than the accompanying Gull, hopefully a Male.

P:46A has been sighted in this area of Cornwall along with one sighting in Guernsey, several times since fledging.

A quiet week on the Axe Estuary in Devon for sightings of our Gulls. Ian McLean had one sighting for us Herring Gull 640 on the 17th May, third visit this year.

Quite a few regular GBBG visitors to the Axe missing during the week, must be visiting new areas.

A sighting from Looe Island Cornwall Claire Lewis (wardens assistant) sent in GBBGull P:75B seen 5th Jan 2017.

Ringed June 2015 and only previous sighting was also at Looe Island in Feb 2016.

www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/looeisland

A round up of sightings on the Axe Estuary Devon by one of our regular observers of our Gulls.

GBBGull's

P:08A seen 24th ,25th April also 10th May an Axe regular
P:25A ringed June 2012 1st sighting was in Jan 2013 2nd sighting 24th April 2017
P:62A previous sighting was in May 2016 and now 26th April also on the Axe
P:97A seen 27th April an Axe regular
P:79A seen 7th may an axe regular.

Herring Gulls on the Axe

472 ringed locally to the Axe seen 25th April
652 ringed in Weymouth Dorset June 2016 seen 9th May
640 ringed June 2016 on the Portland Port Break Waters seen 7th May

Our first ever off shore sighting came in from a Fishing Boat out in the Channel seen 18th May.

                                                                       Tom Russel ©
Tom reports it regularly visits his boat, an open Bait box is obviously attractive !

Great Black Back Gull P:44A since ringing in June 2012 has been sighted predominately at Dawlish Warren in Devon, with visits to the Axe Estuary Devon and Dungeness in Kent. On the 6th May 2017 it was observed at Sutton Bingham Reservoir in Somerset, our first truly in land sighting of one of our GBBGull's.

Great Black Back Gull P:48B has provided us with 8 sightings so far since ringing in June 2014.

Of these 4 have come from the Axe Estuary Devon from Ian McLean and 4 from West Bexington Beach Dorset part of the Chesil Bank.

The latest sighting is from West Bexington on the 30th April 2017.

Luke (team member) sighted P:01A back in Jan 2017 at Radipole Lake Weymouth, on the 2nd May 2017 Luke again sighted P:01A at Radipole Lake. Ringed June 2012 at the start of our c-r GBBGull's it has only been seen at Radipole with the exception of one sighting in 2015 when it was back on the Portland Break Waters. Where does it go in between sightings ????

Also present on the 2nd may at Radipole Lake was Herring Gull 612 first sighting since ringing during June 2016.