As you can see it is blue / yellow on left and on the right leg it is blue above knee and blue / metal below knee.
Later that same day, I happened to be speaking to my friend, Ben Herschell on the phone. Ben is the secretary of Tay Ringing Group and he mentioned something about Tay and Grampian RGs colour-ringing Blkwits at Montrose Basin and I told him about the bird I'd seen that morning.
Ben had a quick check of his notebook while we were chatting and it turned out that this bird was ringed as a "3" (i.e. born in current calendar year) on 26 September 2011 at Montrose Basin! It was re-sighted a further 18 times during the following winter, all at Montrose, with the last re-sighting being on 13 April 2012.
This was a great find for me, as I used to be the Scottish Wildlife Trust Ranger at Montrose Basin and to see a bird which had been ringed at the reserve a couple of months after I left was a fantastic result.
What a fortuitous chance phone call that turned out to be!
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