Teesmouth Bird Club

A few colour ringed gulls around the last few days.

Today at Seaton Reach Herring Gull x2 with orange darvics one reading 2227. Another with uncoded rings right leg white above dark green above lime green.

Earlier in the week another Herring Gull was on Seaton Common with a yellow darvic 2201.

Plus a Black-headed Gull - white ring with letters 502. Another was present yesterday white with VHA - both possibly from Yorkshire area but still awaiting a reply.

All submitted to the BTO/Euring.

A ringing result rather than a colour ring.

For several weeks a Common Gull with a Finnish metal ring has been in the car parks at Seaton Carew. Derek Clayton, Dave Harrison and myself spent quite a while trying to obtain the complete details. On 18/01/2012 it was in the car park behind the Almighty Cod in Seaton Carew when I eventually managed to get the full details CT158228.

I received a reply today by letter from Finland.

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Ring number CT158228
Ringed as young  out of nest on 27/06/2008
Ringing place - SIPOO, UUIMAA, FINLAND

Age on recovery 3 yrs 6 months 21 days
Distance travelled - 1692 km west from ringing place

SIPOO on Google Maps

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Just got details back from the colour ringed Cormorant in Hartlepool fish quay that was seen on Sunday morning.

Orange colour ring CPJ (metal ring G1481) was ringed as a chick at Abberton Reservoir, Essex on the 14th May 2011

The other orange colour ringed bird would also have been ringed at Abberton and the individual with the lime green ring would probably have been a Dutch bird.

Maybe worth other observers trying to read the details of these last two, if they are still there ?

Damian

Herring Gull sighted 08/02/2012 on Seaton Common with yellow darvic coded 1711.

QuoteHerring Gull with orange ring (now faded to yellow), number 1711 was ringed on the 16th March 2007 on Seamer Carr landfill, near Scarborough (TA038820) as a second winter bird with metal BTO ring number GN13872. I have received no other sightings of this bird since it was ringed.

Two other orange coded darvic Herring Gulls sighted over last week are likely to be from the same location.

Another colour ringed Mediterranean Gull was sighted by Dave Harrison at Newburn Bridge this morning. A red darvic bearing letters PEE7.

Possibly from Poland. I believe Dave Britton saw the same bird in Redcar in Nov/Dec 2007.

Quote from: IanF on February 16, 2012, 02:31:05 PM
Another colour ringed Mediterranean Gull was sighted by Dave Harrison at Newburn Bridge this morning. A red darvic bearing letters PEE7.

Possibly from Poland. I believe Dave Britton saw the same bird in Redcar in Nov/Dec 2007.

Further info received from Dave about this bird. He was informed that it was ringed at Rheinau-Freistett in the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany, as a chick on 15th May 1999. Though meanwhile it may have carried another colour ring that was replaced. That ring was sighted several times in 2004 at Marske on 31st July, 1st August and 9th Oct.

I've reported it to the BTO/Euring so they may get back to me at some point.

Quote from: IanF on February 15, 2012, 06:50:11 PM
Herring Gull sighted 08/02/2012 on Seaton Common with yellow darvic coded 1711.

QuoteHerring Gull with orange ring (now faded to yellow), number 1711 was ringed on the 16th March 2007 on Seamer Carr landfill, near Scarborough (TA038820) as a second winter bird with metal BTO ring number GN13872. I have received no other sightings of this bird since it was ringed.

Two other orange coded darvic Herring Gulls sighted over last week are likely to be from the same location.

I've just received a reply about the other coloring ringed Herring Gulls. All from the same location but different ages.

Quote1.       Herring Gull with orange ring 2227 was ringed on the 30th January 2009 on Seamer Carr landfill, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire (grid ref TA038820, 54.13N, 0.24W) as an adult with metal BTO ring number GC65790. I have received no other sightings of this bird since it was ringed.

2.       Herring Gull with orange ring 2201 was also ringed on the 30th January 2009 on Seamer Carr landfill, as a first winter with metal BTO ring number GC65765. Again I have received no sightings of this bird since it was ringed.

3.       Herring Gull with orange ring 1711 (now faded to yellow) was ringed on the 16th March 2007 on Seamer Carr landfill as a second winter bird, with metal BTO ring number GN13872. I have received one other sighting of this bird since it was ringed(from yourself?) on the 8th February 2012 at Seaton Common.

The colour ringed 2nd winter Glaucous Gull which Colin Dodsworth saw at Seaton Carew on 15 Jan (which had been at Boldon Flats on 23 Dec 2011) has been seen again - at Cotham Landfill Site, Nottinghamshire, on 18 Feb. It was originally ringed on the Ugie Estuary, Peterhead, on 3 Aug 2011.

Mark

This curlew was on Seaton Common on Saturday - I notice the colours are different from that shown in the Hartlepool Mail. Has this one been seen around previously?

Quote from: AndyW on February 26, 2012, 08:17:42 PM
This curlew was on Seaton Common on Saturday - I notice the colours are different from that shown in the Hartlepool Mail. Has this one been seen around previously?

I first saw that one on 16/03/2008 and several times over the years. This winter I first saw it on 28/11/2011 and several times since, though it was also reported on Seaton Common in October 2011 . It was ringed on Teesmouth on 21/07/1997.

There's another one still present that's a year older than the one described in the papers, ringed 07/09/1991 on Teesmouth.

They often hang around until March and sometimes April before leaving to breed elsewhere before returning in July/August.

There's still 5-6 colour ringed Curlew on Seaton Common. I came across a new one a few days ago. I've not received a reply about that one yet.

Thanks for the response Ian - you are the proverbial mine of information!

It's just that I've checked for colour ringed Curlews for a good number of years now.

The oldest ringed one from 1991 is still around, present again this morning.

Left - Orange over yellow. Right - Black over yellow - ringed on 7th September 1991 as a juvenile bird (BTO ring no. FC48911). The bird remained using Seal Sands & Seaton Common throughout the winter and when over-summering and moulting during 1992 as a first summer.  Sightings would suggest it emigrated in it's second summer sometime after 22nd March 1993, returning by 5th July.  Thereafter it was generally recorded on Seal Sands during the late summer/autumn (July - August) and then again late winter (January – March, once in April; 11th in 1995).  Since the team was disbanded at the University in late 2001, the few observations made were by the two of us, largely of the bird foraging on Seaton Common in autumn and winter.  You were last to report the bird, on Seaton Common on 22nd March 2008.   

A Mediterranean Gull with green colour coded darvic 'AHEL' was seen on Seaton Carew beach last night. Probably from Hamburg, Germany. Details sent off.

Single colour ringed Avocet amongst 32 Avocets on Greenabella Marsh this afternoon. Left tibia - yellow over blue. Right tibia - lime over orange.

Ringed as pullus by Tees Ringing Group on Greenabella Marsh on 31st May 2010.

Quote from: IanF on March 02, 2012, 07:38:07 AM
A Mediterranean Gull with green colour coded darvic 'AHEL' was seen on Seaton Carew beach last night. Probably from Hamburg, Germany. Details sent off.

A reply received today confirming it was ringed in Germany near Hamburg.

QuoteMediterranean Gull       Larus melanocephalus                     
Ring Number:   5350316 Helgoland      AHEL   ringed June 14 2008 pullus         
     Ringing Place: Pionierinsel Lühe / Landkreis Stade / Niedersachsen / Germany / 53° 35' N   09° 36' E                     
                     
                     
Datum   Beobachtungsort   Genauer   Beobachter   Koordinaten   Land   Trupp   
Finding Date   Finding place   County   Finder   Coordinates   Country   Flock   
                     
07 04 10   Rutland Water Nature Reserve   Leicestershire   Tim MacKrill   52 33 N -0 41 W   UK   AHLA as well   
07 04 10   Rutland Water Nature Reserve   Leicestershire   John Wright      UK      
08 04 10   Rutland Water Nature Reserve   Leicestershire   Tim MacKrill      UK   AHLA as well   
08 04 10   Rutland Water Nature Reserve   Leicestershire   John Wright      UK      
25 07 10   Blythburgh   Suffolk   Jon Gibbs   52 19 N 01 35 E   UK   32   
01 03 12   Seaton Carew, Hartlepool   Durham   David Harrison   54 40 N -1 11 W   UK