On Thursday 11 February I popped over to Holden Wood Reservoir and a ringed Black-headed Gull flew towards me and landed on the metal fence/barrier. The ring read JME5. I contacted Rob Archer who regularly records ringed Gulls at Ashworth Moor and asked if he recognised it. He did not but told me it was Norwegian. Craig Bell sent me the email address to send the sighting too which saved me some time. Thanks to both of you. I have sent it in and will update the information here once received.
-- Edited by sarfraz on Sunday 14th of February 2021 11:49:26 AM
In light of Sarfraz's colour ringed bird, I've just looked up the colour ringed black-headed gull that John & Pete found at Cowm on 24th Nov 2019. This bird was also ringed in Norway. After the initial sighting at Cowm, the bird was present again on 8th December, but has only been seen once more since then, when it was seen back in Norway on 15th April 2020. Full history shown below. It will be interesting to see if Sarfraz's bird has a similar history.
Date
Place
Coordinates
Days
Distance
Direction
18.04 2018
Hvervenbukta, Oslo, Akershus & Oslo, Norway
59°49'58"N 010°46'20"E
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11.06 2018
Østensjøvannet, Oslo, Akershus & Oslo, Norway
59°52'51"N 010°49'57"E
54
6
12.06 2018
Østensjøvannet, Oslo, Akershus & Oslo, Norway
59°52'51"N 010°49'57"E
55
6
28.06 2018
Østensjøvannet, Oslo, Akershus & Oslo, Norway
59°52'51"N 010°49'57"E
71
6
25.07 2018
Mokbaai, De Koog, Texel, The Netherlands
53°00'31"N 004°45'06"E
98
844
01.09 2018
Slufter noord, Texel, the Netherlands, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
53°08'39"N 004°49'45"E
136
828
27.07 2019
Texel, De Slufter, Diepe Gat, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
53°08'40"N 004°49'45"E
465
828
24.11 2019
Cowm Reservoir, Whitworth, Rossendale, Lancashire, Lancashire, Great Britain
53°39'54"N 002°11'08"W
585
1044
08.12 2019
Cowm Reservoir, Whitworth, Rossendale, Lancashire, Lancashire, Great Britain
Finally got the data on the Black-headed Gull I saw and anyway have a read.......
CR-Code White ring with black code: JME5 LBM;RBWN(JME5)
Ringing Centre Stavanger Museum (Norway) Ring number K11135
Species Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
Sex Unknown Age 3 cy+
Rob Archer recorded and photographed JME5 at Ashworth Moor Reservoir on the 24th of January 2022. That is the same bird I saw and photographed in February 2021 or the first post of this thread even. It was the first recording of it since I saw it.
