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

Great Black Backed Gull P:55C was ringed in June 2018 on the Portland Break Waters.

Now thanks to Ivan Sarabia we have our first sighting since then. Seen on the Lamiako Marshes, Leioa, Northen Spain on the 3rd May 2019.

Close to the Ferry Port of Bilbao.



Great Black Backed Gull P:91C, also ringed in June 2018 on the Break Waters has produced its first sighting since then although a little closer to home.

Seen 9th May 2019 at South Huish Marshes near Kingsbridge, Devon by Alan Doidge

                                                GBBG P:91C Photo Alan Doidge ©

Two local sightings from Radipole Lake Weymouth sent in by Edmund Mackrill.

Herring Gull 757 seen 6th May. Ringed August 2018 in Weymouth, this is the first sighting since then.

Herring Gull 699 seen 7th May

                                                           Photo Edmund Macrill ©

 Ringed in Weymouth  July 2018 and last sighting was in October 2018.                                                    

Moira Jackson sighted Herring Gull 588 on Portland as mentioned in a previous post.

Moira has sent us a Photo taken at the time of HG 588

                                                        Photo Moira Jackson ©

A Great Black Backed Gull P:99C ringed in the Axmouth area on the Devon Dorset border in January this year.

Has been sighted further inland to the north at Chard Junction Quarry on the Dorset Somerset Border on the 2nd May by Dave Helliar.

                                                          Photo Dave Helliar ©

Ian MacLean has sent us an updated list of our Gulls that he has seen on the Axe Estuary Devon .

Great Black Backed Gull P:68C seen 25th February a regular visitor to Devon since ringing in June 2016. Sightings from The Otter Estuary, Dawlish Warren and now the Axe.

Herring Gull 476 seen 4th March, previous sighting August 2018 also on the Axe. This Gull was ringed locally in Seaton Devon

Great Black Backed Gull P:89A seen 26th March, ringed June 2014. Previous sightings on the Otter and at Dawlish Warren in July 2018.

Peter Rock and Nick Adams sighted our Herring Gull 631 at Lower Compton Landfill near Bristol on the 3rd May. This is the first sighting since ringing on the Break Waters in June 2016.

Where it has been like so many others we don't know, we rely on sightings from ring readers like those above, as we can't  like all ringers running similar projects be everywhere our selves.

All projects are very gratefull for the time ring readers put in  and for all sightings recieved.