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Tallaght Gulls + Rings: April 2014
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Friday, 4 April 2014. April 2014 - Great Black Backed Gulls Gull with Yellow legs! Speedy reply from Scotland. 4th sighting - all by me! 2102 Scottish Ringed Great Black Backed Gull. There were also 2012 Great Black Backed Gull with Irelands' Eye Darvic Rings. Including yet another that is new to me. It is interesting to compare the plumage between the two colonies so the photos I've chosen are as close as possible to the same pose. 2012 Irelands' Eye ringed Great Black Backed Gull. I got a mid week trip...
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Tallaght Gulls + Rings: July 2014
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Sunday, 6 July 2014. July 2014 - Meds about. Lots and lots of Black Headed Gulls in the park this week but the fine weather means a busy park! No foreign coloured rings so far and even 27H0 only making a weekly appearance. The parks of Tallaght have been quiet for rings. I had a week in Kerry where in the fishing ports and at the Fish Factory in Renard Point I got no rings, not even a metal. In Dublin there are meds around at the coast but none yet seen inland. Med Gull at Sandycove. The ring is a BTO Lo...
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Tallaght Gulls + Rings: December 2013
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Monday, 2 December 2013. December 2013 - Another new Darvic and a Caspian Gull! Ballymount Park, Dublin 24 at lunch time today and 18 Mute Swans were out of the water so I got to check for rings. Only one with a ring and again a old style ring with a code that was unfamiliar to me. Again, I hope it will be an interesting report when it arrives from the BTO. Mute Swan ring in Ballymount Park. Larus Ridibundus K[P615]W from Lithuania. Black Headed Gull from Norway. Mute Swan ring upside down! An early pres...
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Tallaght Gulls + Rings: April 2013
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013. December 2012 1st -16th. Mt first CR Godwit. Meds, GBB and Godwit! December 2012 was such a fantastic month. It started with a metal ring in Tymon Park, on a Juvenile Black Headed Gull. This turned out to be my first from Lough Mask Island. The only place in Ireland I knew they ringed Black Headed Gulls! By C Benson as age nestling, sex unknown on 28-May-2012 at Lough Mask Island. Black Headed Gull EW53681. I also read the Mute swan in Tymon Park. This b ird was. Back at Sean Wals...
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Tallaght Gulls + Rings: Mute Swan Census - Phase 2
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Thursday, 6 August 2015. Mute Swan Census - Phase 2. Received yet another report of Mute Swans with Cygnets in Russborough House in Blessington. Confirmed breeding pair no. 42! Thank you Vincent - yet again. It is proving slow work getting around to sites and then trying to relocate Swans and Cygnets. Parks are easy but waterways, Canals and Rivers are proving difficult. Completed the Peples Garden in the Phoenix Park today. 3 Cygnets first noted 25th May and still 3 Cygnets. 1st Date of Cygnets. These d...
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Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Study: April 2015
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Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Study. Gallery - First-winter BHG. Tuesday, 28 April 2015. Just as this time last year, the blog has taken a backseat recently to fieldwork for much bigger, darker birds than Black-headed Gulls! Brood of four large Raven chicks in Co. Down. We have more than doubled the number of Raven nests we're monitoring for the NI Raptor Study Group since 2014 and this has taken up much of our time of the past few weeks. Friday, 17 April 2015. Latvian re-sightings are like buses.
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Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Study: Colour-ringed Sandwich Terns
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Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Study. Gallery - First-winter BHG. Wednesday, 12 August 2015. Things are certainly on the move with migrating birds passing through and gulls returning to their wintering sites. We have had several reports of continental birds already back at Whitehouse Lagoon, Belfast Lough and at Antrim, Lough Neagh. I'll post a short update on the gulls in the next few days. I suspected a couple of them were birds ringed by Ewan Weston in NE Scotland and passed the sightings on.
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Tallaght Gulls + Rings: May 2013
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Thursday, 23 May 2013. May 2013 - Migration is late! Migration is very late Gulls at Bullock Harbour. May 31st - Late addition to May Blog. At Howth Harbour for 10 minutes late in the evening. Only read one Gull. Blue [1MC]. This Gull was in Bullock Harbour in April 2013. It is good to see individuals again especially in a different location. Great Black Backed Gulls with Blue plastic ring and three digit code starting with 0,1 or 2 should be reported to gulls-at-eircom.net. Great Black Backed Gull 1MC.
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Tallaght Gulls + Rings: September 2013
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Sunday, 1 September 2013. September 2013 Gulls, Swans a heron! I was in Howth Harbour by 6.30 am. Sunrise 7am. There are moves to do a full gull count in Ireland so roost site information is being collected. My aim was to roughly count what was roosting., but Howth Harbour is floodlit and when I arrived there were hundred of gulls circling high above the harbour and none where I thought they roosted! Grey Heron - Penguin enclosure! Look out for yellow oystercatcher rings! Another Isle of Man Darvic.
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Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Study: May 2015
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Northern Ireland Black-headed Gull Study. Gallery - First-winter BHG. Sunday, 31 May 2015. Big gulls on CBO. It's a quiet time of year for Black-headed Gulls, still waiting until young are big enough to ring and no wintering birds to catch, so I headed out to Copeland Bird Observatory yesterday to try and catch some bigger (and meaner! The Copelands are home to several thousand pairs of gulls, including this pair of Lesser Black-backs. Photo by Linda Farmer. Many pairs are still on eggs. I also was succe...
