Great Black Backed Gull P:73C has returned to Chouet Landfill on Guernsey sighting by Wayne Turner seen on the 15th March.

Wayne sent a photo will it transfer to this blog no chance....!!!!!

P:73C ringed June 2016 seen at Chouet December 2016 and July 2017 before making a return visit this month.

Adam Bassett has sent in a sighting of Great Black Backed Gull P:82B, which has made a return visit to Little Marlow Gravel Pits Buckingham shire seen 10th March.

Since fledging in 2015 it has been seen at Little Marlow on 6 occasions, Axe Estuary Devon on 1 occasion,  Portland on 2 occasions and Stratford sub Castle near Salisbury on 2 occasions.

It would seem a strange route for a Sea Bird but is it? As we are reliant on sightings of colour ringed Birds to tell us where they go. The more sightings we and other studies get the more we learn of Bird movements in general, that is until satellite tracking costs tumble to affordable for all.

Great Black Backed Gull P:49B made a return visit to the RSPB Dungeness Reserve. Seen on an island in Burrowes Pit on the 9th March sighting by Martin Casemore.

Ringed June 2014 on the Portland Break Waters, sighted at Dungeness March 2015, then on the Axe Estuary Devon August 2016 and 25 separate sightings on Portland through 2018.

Lee Collins has been out on Dawlish Warren on the Exe Estuary in Devon and among the sightings he recorded where two sightings of one of our Great Black Backed Gulls.

GBBG P:87B seen 6th & 7th March

Wayne Turner is continuing his sterling observations of colour ringed Gulls on Guernsey.

Despite the wind keeping the Gulls low to the ground on L'Eree Aerodrome Wayne managed one photo of a Great Black Backed P:88B, luckily for us it was one of ours from Portland seen 3rd March 2019.

This Gull was ringed in June 2015 and has been a regular visitor to the Axe Estuary in Devon between March 2016 and October 2018.

Apart from one visit to Dawlish warren Devon in September 2016, one visit to the Otter Estuary Devon February 2018 and now a visit to Guernsey just when we thoought it would never leave the Axe...!!!!

Seen in the La Coruna area of North West Spain at Ria du Burgo on the 2rd March 2019 Great Black Backed Gull P:77C. Ringed in June 2018.

This is our second sighting of this Gull particular Gull from the La Coruna area .

                                               Photo and sighting Antonio Lopez Porto ©

Great Black backed Gull P:21C ringed in June 2017 visited Hopes Nose Torquay Devon in January 2018  and has been seen there again on the 17th January 2019.

                                         GBBG P:21C Photo and sighting Tom Bragg ©

Runa Madsen on holiday in England from Norway, visited Radipole Lake in Weymouth and sighted Herring Gull 693 on the 23rd February.

Ringed last year in Weymouth and hatched there the same year.

                                                             Photo Runa Madsen ©