Great Black Backed Gull P:35B is continuing to over winter in now what appears to be its preferred winter area of La Coruna Spain.

                                                   Photo Antonio Lopez Porto©

Sighted by Antonio on the 18th January 2020 at Santa Christina Beach, Oleiros La Coruna, Spain. This Gull has been seen in this area every winter since March 2016.

In the intervening years it has been sighted on two occasions back in the UK at Dawlish Warren Devon and last Summer on the Atlantic Coast of Brittany.

Great Black Backed Gull P:41C continues to enjoy the Tring area of Hertfordshire, being present on Wilstone Reservoir for the 9 days up to and including the 13th January.

Sighting sent in by Lee Evans.

First sightings for the New Year 2020.

 Great Black Backed Gull P:41C has given us three sightings all from near London and not at all coastal.

2nd January Tringford Reservoir  and later the same day from Wilstone Reservoir near to Tring Hertfordshire. Sightings from Ian Williams.

6th January it had moved to Grovebury Sand Pit near Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire sighting by David Bilcock.

Previous wanderings have taken it to Rotherhythe Docks London, Bexley refuse Tip, and Little Marlow Gravel Pits, Buckinghamshire.

We may have moved into a New Year and a New decade, although 2019 is not finished totally as yet as there is still time for sightings to come in such as this one.

Great Black Backed Gull P:51D ringed June 2019 and giving us its first sighting.

Seen at Looe Island Cornwall on the 30th November 2019 sighting by Claire Lewis.

                                                  Photo Claire Lewis©

Looe island is run by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust

https://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/explore/visit-looe-island

Great Black Backed Gull P:87B last sighted 6th November on the Axe Estuary Devon, has moved West to return to Dawlish Warren on the Exe Estuary.

Seen there by Lee Collins who has sent in an end of year round up of sightings.

Seen 22nd, 27th November, 10th, 23rd, & 24th December at Dawlish.

A Great Black Backed Gull ringed as a Pulli back in June this year has produced its first sighting thanks to Lee Collins.

P:18C seen on the 10th December at Dawlish Warren, Devon by Lee.

Always a good feeling when the first sightings come in, another piece of information has arrived.

Great Black Backed Gull P:82B has returned once more to Little Marlow Gravel Pit in Buckinghamshire, seen on the 8th December by Adam Basset.

Since ringing in June 2015 this is the third winter period that this Gull has been seen at this site.
Adam is of the impression it is feeding on a near by landfill.

On one previous occasion it was sighted subsequently at Stratford Sub Castle on the outskirts of Salisbury, giving the impression of travelling overland to the south coast of England to where the next sighting came from on the Axe Estuary.