Amongst 70 rings read on Lesser Black-backed Gulls at Chouet
this morning before work was a foreign metal ringed adult. Fortunately for me
this bird, probably a male due to its size and dominant behaviour, claimed a
position resting on a rock at close range. I managed to read the front four
digits of the ring and a part of the address. Then, less fortunately, the
recycling bins were emptied and the noise flushed the gull. I thought I’d lost
this record...but within 15 minutes the bird was back on the same rock…albeit
very briefly before it flushed again. However…my luck was in today…and I found
it resting on another rock at close range for a few seconds enabling all but the
final digit of the code to be read…so we should be able to narrow this bird down
to within 10 gulls. I’m not 100% certain yet, but I think the words “cempa
estado” on the ring indicate that this is a bird from the Portuguese ringing
scheme. The number was MO2782-
This was all around a lucky morning because the fog was once
again thick…and I feared that no ring reading would be possible.
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