Radipole Lake in Weymouth is not far from the sea and our Gull ringing site, surprisingly we receive very few sightings of our ringed Gulls there  despite it being a popular gull roost site.

Happily Jim Spooner had two sightings there Herring Gull 773, ringed in 2018 after falling off a roof prior to fledgeing. Seen at Radipole on the 18th January all the sightings of this Gull have come from the Radipole area.

On the 23rd January Jim sighted Great Black Backed Gull P:55F ringed June 2022. Only the second sighting of this Gull, first sighting was from a nature reserve in the north  of Weymouth in September 2022.

A little further away on the other side of the Channel (La Manche) Great Black Backed Gull P:41F ringed June 2022 gave its first sighting at Ouistreham Harbour Calvados. Seen there on the 24th January  by Jean Pierre Clave.