Another of our Great Black Backed Gulls has been sighted in France, Bolougne sur Mer being the latest place to receive a visit.

Great Black Backed Gull P:12A ringed June 2012, seen at Bolougne on the 13th December by Eric Petit-Berghem.

                                                              Eric Petit-Berghem ©

Eric Petit-Berghem ©

Previous sightings from Dawlish Warren Devon,Chouet Guernsey, Radipole Lake Weymouth, Axe Estuary Devon, West Bexington Beach Dorset and Portland Dorset.

Another of our Great Black Backed Gulls P:52B  is in France or rather has returned to Finistre at Plage de Trois Moutons near Lampaul. Seen 11^th December by Solange Arzel, forwarded by Yvon Le Corre.

Ringed in June 2015 seen in Finistre Oct 2015, May this year 2019 on a fishing Boat off Swanage 

7 miles (12.25 kms) out in the Channel (La Manche) and now back in Finistre.

Ian McLean saw Great Black Backed Gull P:08A on the 12^th December on the Axe Estuary.  The Axe is very popular with this particular Gull.

Herring Gull 420 was a regular visitor according to sightings we have received in the Hayle Estuary Cornwall, from September 2012 up to November 2018 then nothing until now.

A new sighting on the 21st August 2019 by Lee Gregory, has shown it to be still present there and to be fit and well.

Great Black Backed Gull P:55C was ringed in June 2018 as a Pulli and since fledging it has given us a sighting from North East Spain and four sightings from France, the latest thanks to Didier Domec.

Seen 9th December at Isle de Txingudy, Pyrenees Atlantique France in the Bay of Biscay.

Always nice to get some Herring Gull sightings and two of our Gulls were sighted recently on the Car Park next to Radipole Lake in Weymouth.

Herring Gull 756 ringed during August 2018 in Weymouth, was seen on the 4th December by Edmund Mackrill.

Herring Gull 514 ringed June 2014 on the Break Waters was seen on the 6th December by Edmund Mackrill

Ian McLean has sent in sightings of our Gulls from the Devon Axe Estuary, with help from a fellow ring reader Mike Lock.

Great Black Backed Gull P:08A is a regular visitor to the Axe since ringing in June 2013. Seen by Mike Lock on the 12th November

Great Black Backed Gull P:38B has travelled between Portland and Normandy and Calvados, France with a visit to Shoreham in Sussex and now its first recorded visit to Devon seen 18th November by Ian McLean

Great Black Backed Gull P:99C ringed near to the Axe in January 2019, making another visit to the Axe on the 27th November seen by Ian McLean

Herring Gull 473 ringed in Seaton just to the west of the River Axe in December 2013 and making regular return visits. Seen once more on the 29th November by Mike Lock

Two sightings from Lee Collins at Dawlish Warren on the Exe Estuary in Devon.

Great Black Backed Gull P:89A was seen there on the 23rd November the second sighting from Dawlish. The majority of previous sightings have come from the Axe Estuary also in Devon.

Great Black Backed Gull P:73C seen on the 29th November. Since ringing as a Pulli all sightings have come from the Channel island of Guernsey. Until now with this the first sighting away from the Island. 

May be it leaves the island in between recorded sightings or it is possibly due to the reported dispersal associated with the final closure of Chouet Landfill which has been very popular place over many years with Gulls from all over Europe.

If we are lucky with sightings we may one day answer that question.