A Record Breaking Morning at Chouet Landfill

With cold weather and a big high tide soon after dawn, it was always going to be a good session at Chouet landfill this morning - but I did not expect a record breaking morning. The highlights included:-

1. 2 or 3 adult Yellow-legged Gulls - including White 1CA9, which we ringed at Chouet last May (but unfortunately it remained unrecorded again until today);
2. A 1st Winter Iceland Gull;
3. 10 returning ringed Lesser Black-backed Gulls; and
4. A staggering 234 colour ringed Herring Gulls.

All in all it was one of the most enjoyable ring reading sessions for a long time!

Yellow-legged Gull White 1CA9

Yellow-legged Gull 

Chouet Landfill

LBBG White 2.T5 

LBBG White 2.T5 

LBBG Black 3.H1 

LBBG Black 8F7 

LBBG Black 1AC0 

Herring Gull White 1.DD5 

HG White 1.AL2 

HG White 2.AX5 

HG White 2.VV9 

HG White 2M5 

HG White 4CT7 

HG White 6.AV0 

HG White 6.JJ5 

HG White 6CK0 

HG White 8CN0