The stormy weather along the south coast has sent some of our Gulls into the Axe Estuary for shelter, and thanks to Ian MacLean and Mike Lock we have a list of sightings.

Great Black Backed Gull's 

P:99C seen 6th October, ringed in a garden along the Devon Dorset Border has been sighted in Devon and Somerset.

P:62A seen 12th October, has visited Cornwall, Somerset and Devon

P:48B seen 15th October, regular in Devon and Dorset

P:88B seen 15th October, has voyaged between Dawlish Warren Devon, Swanage Bay Dorset, and Guernsey Channel Islands

P:97A seen 15th October, a Devon regular

P:63B seen 21st October, has ranged from Cornwall to Dungeness in Kent

Herring Gull

Mike Lock sighted Herring Gull 568 ringed in Weymouth a regular visitor to the delights of the Bristol landfill sites, decided a change of view was needed and travelled down to the Axe seen on the 21st October.

Ian MacLean is a keen ring reader on the Devon Axe Estuary, sending us regular sightings of our Gulls.

Herring Gull 473 (ringed in Seaton Devon) seen on the 16th September 2019, last sighting was on the Axe in November 2018.

Great Black Backed Gull P:84C was seen on the 18th September 2019, last sighting was on the Axe in October 2018.

Great Black Backed Gull P:99C was seen on the 22nd September 2019, ringed locally to the Axe in a colleagues garden.

Great Black Backed Gull P:97A was seen on the 29th September 2019, last sighting was in October 2018

Annie Irving on a visit to Portland Dorset sighted one of our Great Black backed Gulls P:49B seen 28th September 2019 at the Bill.

                                           Photo Annie Irving ©

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A regular visitor to Portland Bill is Great Black Backed Gull P:49B with the occasional visit to Dungeness RSPB Reserve in Kent. Ringed in June 2015 on the Break Waters.

Seen at Portland Bill on the 22nd September 2019 by Bill Garn.

Just a Great Black Backed Gull like all the others, but P:43A has one big exception in its favour, this one Gull has produced 91 sightings since ringing in June 2012.

The latest from L'Eree Beach on Guernsey Channel Islands, seen on the 26th Sept 2019.

                                                 Photo and sighting by Wane Turner ©

Another of the Herring Gull Pulli ringed on the Break Waters in June this year has produced its first sighting.

Herring Gull 768 was seen on the 25th September at Park Grounds Landfill near to Bristol by Peter Rock and Nick Adams.

One of our team Luke sighted one of this years Herring Gull's 712 on the Beach at Weymouth, seen on the 23rd September. Ringed as a Pulli on the North East Break Water in June 2019.

Great Black Backed Gull P:35B has left La Coruna in North West Spain and was sighted at Trunvel-Treogat Nature Reserve in  Bretagne France on  the Atlantic Coast  web site  fauneocean.fr  Sighting from Sylvain Reyt seen on the 23rd September.

Another Great Black Backed Gull P:73C is continuing its stay on Guernsey CI. Seen on the beach at Perelle also 23rd September sighting by Wayne Turner.

                                                      A superb photo by Wayne Turner©

Ian Maclean had four sightings of our Great Black Backed Gulls on the Devon Axe Estuary during August this year.

P:88B seen on the 8th & 14th August last sighting was off Swanage Dorset in May
P:62A seen 14th August
P:79C seen 23rd August (first sighting since ringing in June 2019)






A first sighting of a Herring Gull hatched and ringed this June on the Break Waters.
Herring Gull 805 seen at Chard Reservoir Somerset on the 16th September by Dave Helliar.

                                                                   Photo Dave Helliar©