On Friday last, I found a marked Black-headed Gull on the Lune Estuary at Glasson. The instant I read the ring it registered with me that I had not only seen this bird before, but that I had seen it at the same location on the Lune Estuary 3 years ago in September 2014.
Black-headed Gull. Pete Woodruff.
The bird was marked with a white darvic ring and a three black alpha-numeric code on the right leg and a metal ring on the left, and has been re-sighted and read five times, three in Denmark, and two on the Lune Estuary in Lancashire.
I'm grateful to Kjeld Tommy Pedersen for dealing with this record, and for forwarding the history of the bird to me.
Black-headed Gull 6CY.
Ringed as an adult male in Svanemøllebugten, København, Denmark on 21 March 2013, and re-sighted....
27 March 2013.
DKHS Jesper Brinkmann Nielsen
(DKC-749) White 6CY ØREGÅRDSPARKEN
GENTOFTE 55.44N-012.34E Alive Colour ring read 8
81.
GBLA Peter Woodruff White 6CY LUNE ESTUARY:
GLASSON DOCK THURNHAM 54.00N 002.51W Alive Colour ring read 7
81.
28 March 2015.
DKHS Kjeld Tommy Pedersen
(DKC-404) White 6CY CHARLOTTENLUND
FORT GENTOFTE 55.45N-012.35E Alive Colour ring read 8
81.
DKHS Eddie Bo Fritze (DKC-243) White 6CY CHARLOTTENLUND
FORT GENTOFTE 55.45N-012.35E Alive Colour ring read 8
81.
GBLA Peter Woodruff White 6CY LUNE ESTUARY:
GLASSON DOCK THURNHAM 54.00N-002.51W Alive Colour ring read 7
81.
Be good if you could please send your ring-reads to me on or about 30th June 2018. I think you are the only regular ring reader I don't get sent info from for the county bird report. Most of the stuff I can pick up in the annual BTO on-line regional report for Lancs and North Merseyside (worth a look if you interested in ringing recoveries) but some of the colour ring reads can be very slow to reach the BTO from the ringers. Thanks Pete (editor of ringing report, Lancs Bird Report)
ReplyDeleteWon't just be 'good if you could', but I most certainly will let you have all my ring records by the end of June next year.
ReplyDeleteBut what I don't understand, is that you found this BHG record just as easy as you would have found it had I sent it to your inbox, so what's the problem with collecting all the other records in the same way Pete.
The ringing report takes me five days to write and that includes fifty plus emails containing ringing recoveries, mostly individual as received but some containing rather a lot from the specialist wader ring readers, then emails from the individual ringers and groups totalling another 20 or so and finally checking the bto on line reports for the likes of tideline seabird corpses found by dog walkers etc which we don't otherwise hear about. i havnt time to check personal blogs but assume if people are interested they would forward their sightings. Sometimes it helps to send through me. For example I received a Med gull darvic sighting from heyaham but nothing fitted.....but a Polish black headed gull did! That person would otherwise have given up assuming a misread
ReplyDeleteThis isn't about me not sending you my records, it's about the fact I don't fall in line to relieve the burden you have as a recorder, but I still don't understand why its harder for you to read a blog than an e-mail.
ReplyDeleteThe bottom line here Pete....Remember the Mr Independence label you put on me about 25 years ago which you've still not learnt to live with.
As always, my Kind Regards
Pete.
Sorry pete I havnt time to access everyone's blog, twitter, Flickr etc just for the occasional posting of a ringing recovery - fortunately we have more than enough to fill the pages and any really show-stopping ones should be picked up by the BTO. Thanks. Pete
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