Observed at Kirkby on Bain landfill site on 3rd February 2017. Details received below.
It’s a bird which was colour-ringed ringed at Harewood Whin landfill site, to the west of York, (53.960 -1.177). The bird was caught using a Cannon Net and is one of around 1500 Gulls which have been caught and colour ringed to date.
Harewood Whin is one of the decreasing number of Landfill sites in the UK where it is possible to operate for the catching and ringing of gulls. Whilst with us the gulls feed on the Landfill site during the day and roost on the floods in Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve or on the Humber Estuary.
The bird was rung on 4th November 2016 and I have attached further details of subsequent sightings
Recapture History
Ring number
Herring Gull - GV31886
Age 7 (third calendar year), 26/02/16, (DT), Rufforth Waste Disposal site, York Age 7 (third calendar year), Sighted, 11/03/16, (MFJ), Lingham Lake,Nosterfield, North Yorkshire (37 km, NW, 14 days) Age 7 (third calendar year), Sighted, 12/03/16, Whitburn,Tyne and Wear (110 km, N, 15 days)
Matthew
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