July 2013
July 30th eveningTrip to Bullock Harbour on the way to a club tern watch evening and photographed a coloured ringed med gull (and missed one) but then I got my first foreign Great Black Backed Gull, ringed in Scotland! Horse Isle, Ardrossan, Ayrshire on 1st July 12 to be percise. Many thanks to Iain Livingstone in Scotland for his speedy response. Once again I am the first to observe this individual.
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Great Black Backed Gull ringed on Horse Isle, Ardrossan, Ayrshire 1st July 12.
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| Green[AKAJ]White - German Mediterranean Gull |
July 30th morning
The day started very well with a metal Ring in Sean Walsh Park - a Black Headed Gull with a new style Denmark Ring, instead of just numbers this one was 6J-4103. Then at lunch time E5VA turned up as it hasn't been there on the last 7 trips.
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| Black Headed Gull - Darvic Ring E5VA |
Howth Harbour was interesting today as so few Blue rings compared to earlier in the month, was the low tide a factor? I read 5 GBB darvics and 1 Herring Gull darvic. So I spent a while and some bread reading the herring gull metal rings. Most seem to be ringed by CH from the number sequence, how ever one was the old style ring with just the BTO postal address and no website. The bird may be reasonably old - it might not, it could have been ringed some distance away, I'll have to wait and see.
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| Old Style - 2004 Ringed on Irelands Eye (Post Script) |
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| New style and up side down for added sport! Thanks DM! |
July 27th
July has been frustrating with only 1 coloured rings in the Tallaght Parks and its not about at the moment. So many metal rings are proving hard to read. I read ES4**** which I think will be ES45066 back from Pockthorpe in the UK and this BHG ST2827**? among others but all incomplete readings. I at least know that this Black Headed Gull is from Helsinki!
July 21st
Sean Walsh Park, Tallaght Dublin 24. E5VA has returned to SWP again. Third year in a row.
19/03/2013 Last seen in Dublin
19/04/2013 Observed in Zoetermeer, Holland
21/07/2013 Back in Sean Walsh Park
July 12th
Still can't read any of the metal rings - Black Headed Gulls too well fed. First med of the summer in Sean Walsh Park, Tallaght, pity no ring.
July 10th
First metal ring in Sean Walsh Park was a BTO ring but bird wouldn't land for more than a second! ***9607. I would have expected this, that the first Black Headed Gulls were from the Irish Colonies.......but, the second seen that day was Swedish 62145**. So the first of the Scandinavian Gulls are back in Dublin (and probably wondering what has happened to the weather. It was 27 degrees today in Dublin). For us this is a heat wave.
First metal ring in Sean Walsh Park was a BTO ring but bird wouldn't land for more than a second! ***9607. I would have expected this, that the first Black Headed Gulls were from the Irish Colonies.......but, the second seen that day was Swedish 62145**. So the first of the Scandinavian Gulls are back in Dublin (and probably wondering what has happened to the weather. It was 27 degrees today in Dublin). For us this is a heat wave.
Spent a few very enjoyable hours today with C.H. on Ireland's Eye ringing both Herring and Great Black Backed chicks. Very, very busy tourist Island today with the fine weather.
The Herring Gulls rings still start with the digit 0.
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| Herring Gulls Juveniles 0LA + 0MA |
Black Headed Gulls return to Tallaght
There were no Black Headed Gulls in Sean Walsh Park on Monday 1st of July,
July 1st 0
July 3rd 7
July 4th 12
July 8th 95
July 9th 108 (Including first 7 juveniles) and first metal ring
July 12th 207 Only Approximate as they kept flying between lakes. 1st Med this year also
July 9th 108 (Including first 7 juveniles) and first metal ring
July 12th 207 Only Approximate as they kept flying between lakes. 1st Med this year also
The temperature was above 20 this week so the parks are so full of children and dogs so it is hard getting the Gulls out of the water, so no rings yet, but I didn't get one last year till the end of August
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| 4th July -- Black Headed Gull in Sean Walsh Park - 1st Summer |
July 2nd
At Bray Harbour tonight, no rings on any of the Gulls but read a few Mute Swan rings.
Went to Bullock Harbour next, where three Great Black Backed Gulls were sporting Irelands Eye Darvic Rings, however, the highlight was the first Juvenile Black Headed Gull of the year for me. As I don't have any breeding near me, I don't get to see them till winter.
Went to Bullock Harbour next, where three Great Black Backed Gulls were sporting Irelands Eye Darvic Rings, however, the highlight was the first Juvenile Black Headed Gull of the year for me. As I don't have any breeding near me, I don't get to see them till winter.
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| Juvenile Black Headed Gull - Bullock Harbour, Dublin |
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| Great Black-Backed Gull + Blue[2LA] + Bullock Harbour |
