Ian Fisher kindly sent me a Med Gull update for the two birds in Amble Harbour. The two birds are shown above with one the brighter bird ( redder bill etc) wearing the red darvic ring. If you remember I photographed this bird last year, in March, and posted it on here. This is the update of where it has been since then...
26.05.2007. Palić lake,Subotica,Vojvodina(YU78),Serbia 46.04N 019.44E A.Žuljević & O.Sekereš breeding bird
05.10.2007. Amble harbour,Northumberland(GBNL) 55 20N 001 34W K. Walkling 131 1808 312°(NW)
12.02.2008. Amble,Northumberland(GBNL) 55 20N 001 34W Ph. Bone 262 1808 312°(NW)
02.03.2008. Amble harbour,Northumberland(GBNL) 55 20N 001 34W S. Sexton 281 1808 312°(NW)
06.04.2008. Csaj-to,Tömörkény,Csongrád(HG43),Hungary 46 34N 020 05E A. Fodor 316 62 25°(N)
10.10.2008. Amble harbour,Northumberland(GBNL) 55 20N 001 34W E. Crabtree 503 1808 312°(NW)
10.12.2008. Amble,Northumberland(GBNL) 55 20N 001 34W G. Pollinger 566 1808 312°(NW)
23.01.2009. Amble harbour,Northumberland(GBNL) 55 20N 001 34W I. Fisher 610 1808 312°(NW)
Most interesting for me is the way it heads south to breed and north to winter? Unusual that. I see that after I saw it, last spring, one month later and it was in Hungary!
2 comments:
Fascinating records, but a shame that there's none 'en route'.
Did I read that many of our wintering Med Gulls fly along the Danube and Rhine and across the North Sea?
A case of Gulls to Newcastle?
Sorry.
Nice one Steve :) Interesting about them following the river valleys, common sense really...
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