Guernsey is the place at the moment to see our Gulls on Perelle Beach sightings thanks to Wayne Turner.

Great Black Backed Gull P:43A returned on the 26th January unfortunately with some type of leg injury hopefully not to serious.

Following on the next day 27th January were two more of our Great Black backed Gulls.

P:33D making its first recorded visit to Guernsey, having travelled the South Coast of England from Portland to Shoreham and a visit to the Axe in Devon. Now a cross channel voyage where next?

P:79C another regular visitor to Guernsey with occasional visits to the Otter Estuary and the Axe Estuary in Devon.

Photo Wayne Turner P:33D

Photo Wayne Turner P:79C

 first sightings from last years ringing continue to arrive from the French Atlantic coast to Ferry Bridge which is on the opposite side of Portland Harbour to where the nest sites are situated.

Great Black Backed Gull P:09F was seen back there on the mud flats on the 18th January seen by Dave Bishop.

 Great Black Backed Gull P:10F featured in our last post being seen on the 27th December 2021 on the Ile de Yeu of the Vendee coast of France.

By the 9th January it had moved further south along the coast to Courant Mimizan  between Bordeaux and Bayonne. Seen by Sophie Damian-Picollet.

                                                          Photo Sophie Damian-Picollet

It is rare we get Herring Gull sightings so it is always good news when one comes in. Herring Gull 535 hadn't been sighted since ringing in June 215. 

That was until the 8th January 2022 when it was sighted at Lubeck-Wakenitz Germany sighting sent in by Institut für Vogelforschung "Vogelwarte Helgoland

Great Black Backed Gull P:10F a fledgling from June 2021 gave it's first sighting on the 27th December 2021 on the Ile de Yeu Vendee France .

Seen by Xavier & Marie-Paule Hindermeyer. 

So far this is the furthest one of last years young has been known to have travelled.

 A Great Black Backed Gull sighting and a Herring Gull sighting the first HG for some time.

Great Black Backed Gull P:20B hadn't produced a sighting since 2018 and before that 2016 originally ringed in June 2014. That was until 3rd January 2022 Allan Reese found it in flock of Gulls in the Dorchester area of Dorset. Allan sent us a Photo taken at a long distance and naturally there was apiece of grass partially obscuring what we decided  after studying the photo was a P.

Nick Adams and Peter Rock sighted Herring Gull 812 back at Lower Compton waste treatment site near to Bristol. Seen on 4th January 2022.

Ringed in June 2019 and all 3 sightings have come from Lower Compton.

 Two more Great Black Backed Gull sightings from last year, sent in by Mark Grantham and the West Cornwall Ringing Group.

GBBGull's P:03F and P:12F both ringed in June 2021 and this was the first sighting since then for both. Seen just outside of Padstow Harbour Cornwall on the 31st December 2021 by Shaun Grose.