Ken Croft reported a colour ringed Med along with 2 other un-ringed birds from Beddmanarch Bay yesteday. Thanks to Camille, the chap running the scheme, news was back today with its previous sightings. The ring was green on L leg with white 3KP8.
ringed as pulli 01/06/2003 Verrebroekse, Antwerpen, Belgium
seen 10/07/2004 Scotsman's Bay, Dun Laoghaire
also 01/04/2007 Saint Quentin-en-Tourmout, Somme, France
17/06/2008 Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
16/03/2009 Pais-de-Calais
05/04/2009 Antwerpen, Belium
06/06/2010 Antwerpen, Belgium
03/03/2011 Scotsman's Bay, Dun Laoghaire where it spends most of its time.
07/03/2011 Beddmanarch Bay, Holyhead.
Talking of travelling Meds, check out the link below from the BTO which refers to a bird seen in Great Yarmouth before rocking up a little further south west...
ReplyDeletehttp://btoringing.blogspot.com/2011/02/mediterranean-gull-goes-way-of-little.html
Chris
I had a bird at Cemlyn last spring that had been ringed as a chick near Warsaw, Poland the previous year.
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