Colour Rings!

 A walk around The Desert and trapping area with AJG this morning found very few migrants, just a few each of Chiffchaffs, Blackcap and Common Whitethroats and a few Swallows over. Hopefully the birding will improve in the next few days.
This afternoons sea watch was not very inspiring.
13.20-14.20 from the fishing boats with Peter and AJG who collated the numbers:
Fulmar: 1E
Shearwater sp: 1E (Manx or Balearic)
Gannet: 48E
Arctic Skua: 1 around
Mediterranean Gull: 1W
Sandwich Tern: 220W
Common Tern: 41W
Black Tern: 3W
Guillemot: 2E
Harbour Porpoise: 4+
This evening from Firth hide good numbers of Greater and Lesser Black-backed Gulls came in to roost, including at least 7 colour ringed individuals which kept me entertained.

 Norwegian ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull J557R

 Landguard area ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull BXB.P

NTRG Lesser Black-backed Gull W0UT

Norwegian Great Black-backed Gull ringed as a chick on 09.07 2019 at SANDØY, Mandal, Vest-Agder, 57°58'03"N 007°33'39"E 891 Kilometers from Dungeness.

 Norwegian Great Black-backed Gull ringed as a chick on 10.07 2018 at Revøy, Farsund, Vest-Agder, Norway 58°02'57"N 006°47'45"E and not seen again until today.

 Danish ringed juvenile Great Black-backed Gull JZP58, unfortunately this bird is not yet registered on their web site.

 2 cal year Great Black-backed Gull ringed as a chick on 01.07 2018 at Håpoldenden, Askøy, Hordaland, Norway 60°33'21"N 004°57'44"E. I saw this bird twice in August and again today but there are no other reports

 A frustrating third summer Yellow-legged Gull sporting a yellow ring but refused to come out of the water for me to read and photograph it.

2 Cattle Egrets on the ARC from a couple of days ago