All at Titchfield Haven
Black-headed Gull - 1
This was an adult bearing white colour ring 2456 (BTO ring EA69556), originally ringed at the nest on 17/06/21 on Goat island, Lough Ree in County Longford, ROI.
Distance 558km. 24 hour turn around from Brian Burke.
Black-headed Gull - 2
This was an adult yellow colour ring T78V ringed as male, 3cy+ nesting in Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland and seen at Titchfield Haven - 1099 days and 1411km. Seen twice in summer 2020 in Poland and once in West Flanders by July of that year. A final spring sighting in 2021 was back near it's original ringing site.
So, a little curious as to why it would be in a UK breeding colony.
Needed info input to Polish ringing website.
Common Tern
Yellow colour ringed adult C.77 in picture below was reported via CR birding where the main contact was in hospital(!!) but still able to pass this to a colleague who provided a metal ring code ST47024 enabling the info to be input to BTO with a response within four days. Ringed as a nestling at Bedfont Lakes in summer 2020, so 88km and 724 days with no sightings in between. Another yellow colour ringed Common Tern was too far away.
