Two colour-ringed gulls were photographed at Ballycarry,
Larne Lough yesterday and posted on the NIBA blog (see here), one of
"my" Black-headed Gulls and a Herring Gull sporting a yellow ring
with the inscription 0V:W
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| Photo by Cameron Moore |
Checking the cr-birding.org website, a report of the
sighting was sent to Lee Barber. It turns out however, that while it is part of a project registered to Lee in England, the Herring Gull was actually ringed on the Copeland Islands earlier this year.
I felt a bit of an idiot at this point, as the re-sightings co-ordinator for the Copeland colour-ringed gulls is yours truly! Oops. I don't know why I didn't check our database first.
Anyway, this is the first re-sighting of it since. In fact, this is the first re-sighting of
any of our birds from Copeland, so we're delighted!
A total of 16 Herring Gulls were colour-ringed in May
in the first year of what is an extension to a project already ongoing in
mainland UK.
Anyone attending the BTO Conference at Oxford Island
tomorrow will hear presentations on both these projects during the afternoon
session.
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| Photo by Cameron Moore |
Many thanks to Cameron Moore for reporting his sightings and the photos and to Lee for keeping me right!
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