Yesterday was my best ever for ringed gulls.
Blue BHS is a resident Herring Gull, ringed at a Gloucester landfill site in Jan 07. I have seen it several hundred times at Newport, but there are no reports from anywhere else.
In contrast Herring Gull Blue MAP, also ringed at a Gloucester landfill site in Jan 11, has only been reported twice previously, both at Newport in Oct '11 & April '13.
Common Gull White JA546 is another Norwegian bird, ringed as a chick in Aug '16. This was the 1st resighting.
Black Headed Gull Black 2BAJ was ringed as a chick near Solihull in July '16. It was at Newport in Feb & Oct '17 & Feb '18, back to the Midlands in April '18 before it's 3rd consecutive early Feb visit to Newport.
Med Gull White 3YVA was ringed as an adult in Belgium in May '17. It had moved to Ireland by Aug '17, spent the Spring of '18 in Antwerp before Ireland again in July '18. Presumably it's on it's way back to Belgium.
There was also a 1st W Norwegian BH Gull with an unreadable (white letters on pale green) ring.
Today ,by contrast, there were very few gulls & no rings. But by the bridge the Pintail was still with the Mallards, the Water Pipit was foraging & there were a pair of Goosanders.
