Still on Guernsey sightings and to the GBBGull that has produced the most sightings of any Gull we have ringed have ringed so far.
P:43A ringed in June 2012 and as of the last report from Wayne Turner and Abbs Oliveira is on 103 sightings all on Guernsey the latest was on the 16th August.
The honour of taking the 100th sighting goes to Abbs.
Mark Grantham of the West Cornwall Ringing Group has sent in two sightings of our Great Black backed Gulls seen at Southerly Point the Lizard Cornwall.
P:64D seen by Terry Thirlaway on the 26th July and by Tony Blunden on the 29th July. Ringed June 2019 these are the first sightings since then.
Terry Thirlaway had a sighting of GBBGull P:57D on the 14th August also at Southerly Point. Ringed in June 2019 and the first sighting since then.
Great Black Backed Gull P:73C is a Guernsey regular since the closure of the Landfill at Chouet Perrelle Beach is now the place to be seen. There on 3 occasions up to the latest on the 18th August, sightings by Abbs Oliveira and Wayne Turner.
An up date from Lee Collins of our Great Black Backed Gulls at Dawlish Warren on the Exe Estuary Devon.
Lee mentioned he has found a there is large reduction in the total sightings of colour ringed Birds on the Estuary.
Great Black Backed Gull P:87B sighted once more at Dawlish on the 11th August after an absence of sightings for the last 8 months. ringed in 2015 and normally a regular visitor to Dawlish.
Great Black Backed Gull P:91D visiting Dawlish on the 4th July in between visiting as mentioned in a previous post the Axe Estuary Devon and West Bexington Dorset.
Ian McLean sends us regular sightings of our Gulls from the Axe Estuary in Devon.
Ian's latest sightings.
Great Black Backed Gull's
26th July P:62A regular on the Axe with two recorded visits to Chard Junction Reservoir Dorset
28th July P:79C also an Axe regular since ringing in June 2018
6th August P:91D second sighting since ringing although first for the Axe. Previous sighting was at West Bexington to the East in Dorset
