Great Black Backed Gull P:15D ringed June this year. Was sighted at Southerly point on the Lizard Cornwall 18th September, sent in by Mark Grantham West Cornwall Ringing Group.

Photo and sighting by Terry Thirlaway ©

A regular up date from Ian MacLean sightings from the Axe Estuary Devon.

All Great Black Backed Gulls
Oct 18th P:62A & P:88B
Oct 23rd P:13A, P:64B, P:97A & P:84C ringed in June this year
Oct 26th P:97A present once more, P:08A very regular visitor and P:79A




Herring Gull 735 ringed in Dorchester this summer was seen at Radipole lake Weymouth on the 278th October.

                                             sighting Steve Hales & photo Terry Girling ©

Moira Jackson sent in three sightings of our Gulls.

Great Black Backed Gull P:62B sighted near to Portland Bill 18th October, ringed on the Break waters June 2015.
Only previous sighting was at Coverack in Cornwall during February 2016, where has it been????

Also two sightings of our Weymouth Herring Gulls 729 & 744 both ringed this year, seen at Radipole Lake Weymouth.

Peter Rock had a sighting of Herring Gull 509 seen on the 19th October, it was ringed in June 2014 on the Break Waters.

Three sightings of this particular Herring Gull all from Lower Compton Landfill, one in 2016 & two in 2018 no sighting from 2017 although it may have been present. Logging colour rings in a cloud of  milling and feeding Gulls  is not an easy task.

Peter Rock and Nick Adams do so on a regular basis to monitor the Gulls on this Landfill.

Neil Pritchard regularly sends in sightings of our Gulls on Portland, 11 Great Black Backed and 1 Herring Gull were the latest sightings.

Great Black Backed Gull P:31A has moved along the coast  from the last sighting which was on the Axe Estuary in Devon, and previously it was seen 7 miles out to sea off Brixham.

Ian MacLean sent in 3 Great Black Backed Gulls and 2 Herring Gull sightings from the Axe estuary.

All very useful information for us.

Liam Langley came across Herring Gull 420, seemingly now a resident of Hayle in Cornwall. First sighted there in September 2012, ringed in the previous year.

Some observers are of the opinion its stay has something to do with Pasty shop on the quay....!!!!

Our locally ringed Herring Gulls are providing the sightings for the moment on Radipole Lake.

            

Photo & sighting by Edmund Mackrill © 11th October

Photo & sighting by Edmund Mackrill © 11th Oct

    

Sightings from Derek Julian of  our Weymouth ringed Herring Gulls all at Radipole Lake on the 7th Oct.

Herring  Gulls 724, 729, & 744

                                              Herring Gull 724 Derek Julian ©

Sightings from Edmund Mackrill on the 7th Oct Herring Gull 699 also at Radipole Lake.

Additional sightings from Edmund on the 8th Oct
Herring Gulls 687 & 694 both at Radipole Lake.

Also on the 8th Oct Herring Gull 721 on the Beach at Weymouth

                                                  Edmund Mackrill ©

Great Black Backed Gull P:21C was seen at Portland Bill by Matt Ames ( the southern end of the Isle of Portland) on the 3rd October.

Ringed in June 2017 it has been sighted on the Axe Estuary, Torquay, Dawlish Warren, Beesands Torbay and now back at Portland.




Herring Gull 729 ringed in July this year, visited Radipole Lake Weymouth, sighting from Edmund Mackrill on the 4th October.

                                                HG 729 Edmund Mackrill ©

Lee Collins regularly sends us colour ring sightings from Dawlish Warren on the Exe Estuary Devon.

Great Black Backed Gull P:53C seen post fledging on Portland 8th September and subsequently at Dawlish on the 28th September.

Great Black Backed Gull P:87B is a regular at Dawlish with the occasional move along the Devon coast to the Axe Estuary.

Our records show of 80 sightings of this Gull, 77 have come from Dawlish, with 3 from the Axe.
The latest sighting is from Dawlish on the 22nd of September, all since ringing in June 2015.

One of this years Herring Gulls 744 ringed in Weymouth was at Radipole Lake  1st October.

                                               Photo and sighting by Edmund Mackrill ©

We ring Herring Gulls in the Weymouth area in addition to out on the Break Waters.

                                                               Herring Gull 758

                        Seen at Radipole lake Weymouth 28th September Edmund Mackrill ©

Herring Gull 759 was seen in Weymouth Harbour on the 29th September by Neil Price.

Both Herring Gulls were ringed in August this year, in Weymouth.