The large numbers of gulls around Amroth in the last week has provided a great opportunity to look for colour rings. Over the last few days I have seen 8 colour ringed birds, 3 Herring Gulls (red, green and black), 2 Common Gulls, 2 Black-headed Gulls and an Oystercatcher. Of the 8 I managed to read 4 of them.
On the 15th (and also the 16th) an adult Black-headed Gull yellow TUCC, from Poland but I am still awaiting the full details. Another adult Black-headed Gull on 16th, black 2AVL ringed as a chick in the West Midlands in 2016.
Also on the 15th an adult Common Gull white JE078 ringed as a chick in Rogaland, Norway in August 2018, 1,017km from Amroth!
The most exciting was the Oystercatcher yelloworange-white(KA) seen on the 15th. The bird was ringed as an adult near Selfoss, SW Iceland in May 2017, later that year, in August, it was seen in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. The following year it was back near Selfoss and again in 2019. In February 2020 it was seen again in Pontevedra then back near Selfoss in May last year. This is the first sighting of this bird in the UK presumably stopping off at Amorth on its migration back to Iceland!
