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RE: ASHWORTH MOOR RESERVOIR


Many Lesser Black-backed Gulls passing west again this afternoon including a colour ringed bird (F732) which is from a Wildlife rehabilitation centre in Southern Portugal. Also present Dunlin, 2 Oystercatcher and a juv Mediterranean Gull



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Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper and a Curlew on North Shore this afternoon 



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Steady passage of Lesser Black-backed Gulls again this afternoon, nearly all adults and all heading west after washing off. A colour ringed bird (NOUP) was photographed and is from a project in Malaga, Spain and will await its history



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Redshank, Common Sandpaper, 2 Oystercatcher, Lapwing and a Curlew on North side this evening .



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9 Goosander, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Grasshopper Warbler and 4 Wheatear this morning



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Best from a short evening visit:

1 Hobby chasing Swifts over the eastern end.

28 Goosander.

1 Great Black- backed Gull among the Lesser Black-backed Gull and c120 Black-headed Gull.

1 reeling Grasshopper Warbler.



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Fewer Lesser Black-backed Gulls moving through today but another Yellow-legged Gull dropped in with a small group of them c1315.  Was still present on the North side at 1400. 



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Big numbers of Lesser Black-backed Gulls again today all heading west. A Yellow-legged Gull arrived at 1350 and swiftly departed west as did 2 Mediterranean Gulls. An adult Lesser Black-backed Gull arrived yesterday pm covered in some sort of slime and has somehow managed to preen the majority of it off and is non the worse for wear today. 



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300+ Lesser Black-backed Gulls ( mostly adult) moved across the reservoir from the east and departing west between 1630 and 1800..

23 Juv Black-headed Gulls and the first returning Common Gull also present .



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Peregrine on the south shore spit early doors with a kill.  4 Common Sandpiper and a Ringed Plover on the north shore .



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Best from a short evening visit:

1 Great Crested Grebe and 13 Goosander.

2 Lapwing, 2 Curlew and 3 Common Sandpiper.

1 Great Black-backed Gull.

1 Little Owl and 1 Kestrel.

c40 each of Swift and Sand Martin.



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On a wet morning circuit:

2 Goosander and 1 Great Crested Grebe

2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Curlew and 1 Oystercatcher.

c30 Swift and c35 Sand Martin, with a few Swallow and House Martin.

2 Stonechat, and my first site record of Blue Tit, with a family party of 5!



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Possible Yellow-legged Gull has been at the reservoir the last two evenings before flying off east both times. Not certain but managed a photo that show a few salient points. 



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Best from a circuit this morning:

1 Great Crested Grebe.

Surprise Little Owl at 9.00, and 1 Kestrel.

4 Lapwing, 2 Curlew, 1 Snipe and 3 Common Sandpiper.

12 Swift and 20 Sand Martin.

3 Stock Dove.

1 Grasshopper Warbler singing.

 



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Cuckoo this morning below Wham Hill and the pair of Dunlin are still present on the south shore ..



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Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper and 2 Curlew first thing this morning .



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Grey Wagtails have bred successfully here again with at least 2 fledged young . Two Curlew sites have not fared so well . One was ransacked by a Fox yesterday and the second has also failed and is now deserted too .

Pair of Dunlin still here and 3 Common Sandpiper also present .

 



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Sad to see a very impressive but very sick Great Black-backed Gull barely alive on the south shore this afternoon. Managed to get hold of it and do the right thing.

2 Dunlin and 2 Common Sandpiper also on the reservoir



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Early this morning,

3 Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Curlew, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Wheatear and 4 Great Black-backed Gulls amongst the other large gulls on the reservoir. 



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Early this morning,

3 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, Greylag Goose, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, 2 Wheatear, 2 Grasshopper Warbler and 3 Great Black-backed Gulls in with c100 other large gulls.  



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One of the better visiits to the Reservoir this afternoon.

2 Turnstone, Sanderling, 2 Ringed Plover and 14 Dunlin all appeared to arrive together around 1400 ish feeding amongst the surf on the South shore spit.

2 Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Curlew and 2 Wheatear also present.

Big numbers of Hirundines also present and a constant passage of large Gulls ( mainly Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gull with occasional Great Black-backed Gull too) all heading Eastwards across the res.

 



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A single Arctic Tern flew through north at 0830 . 2 Common Sandpiper and a Dunlin also present this  morning .



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3 Common Sandpiper and a Dunlin this morning. No trace of the Goldeneye for me today. They had been present at the reservoir for over 6 months and may finally have departed.



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Dunlin and a pair of Common Sandpiper early doors this morning ..



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Highlights of a short evening visit:

3 Goldeneye, 21 Goosander and 2 Greylag Geese.

1 Common Sandpiper, 4+ Curlew.

1 Grasshopper Warbler and 3 Sand Martin.



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Fri 19/4

8.00 - 9.00 am

Highlights

2 x Wheatear 1m, 1f South wall
2 x Goldeneye E.end of Res 1m, 1f

1 Grasshopper Warbler (heard only) in reeds of field N of the Dam

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Thurs 11/4 15:00-16:15 lovely spring afternoon

Mallard 1 male
Canada goose pair on nest
Cormorant 2 flew in
Goldeneye m&f
Curlew 3 on res and at least 3 others bubbling over territory
Lapwing 9
L Bb gull 10s in on then off
Herring gull singles accompanying Lessers

Pied wagtail 10s on walls and embankment

Wheatear 2 males on rocky grassy outcrop at SW end
Sand Martin 3 in and out over res

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Nice sight of 33 Whooper Swans flying onto the Reservoir early doors this morning. Still there when I left at 0940. ( Brian Kirkwood and Paul Gorton present)  Single Sand Martin also flew over West.



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No sign of any Wheatears for me this morning.
Lots of activity from the Skylarks and Meadow Pipits though and I counted 7 Curlew in total.
3 Reed Bunting
6 Pied Wagtail. (Some looked suspiciously like White Wagtail, but I struggle to nail the ID with these.)
3 Lapwing on the shoreline
3 Goldeneye
6 Goosander dropped in
1 Cormorant on the pylon
Plus the usual gulls on the reservoir, but nothing out of the ordinary.

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Had a call on Monday from a local Farmer ( very pro birds and wildlife ) to say he had picked a female Kestrel up out of the mud in one of his Cattle Sheds and put it into a Cat Cage. I called over and ended up taking the bird to Greenmount Animal Hospital. After 4 days of R & R and plenty of food the bird had improved dramatically.  I collected the bird today and took it back and released it in its normal territory.

Fantastic to see it flying off strongly. The Sanctuary is all run by volunteers who do a brilliant job and funded by donations so if anybody is interested in chipping in to help out I'm sure it would be appreciated.

Easily done online or at the site in Greenmount.



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0830/1030 hrs 11 degrees Westerly wind.

Late post from yesterday, Pair of Great Crested Greebe, courtesy of Geoff M.

This morning......

First Wheatear Of this spring, three on the Westerly wall and pasture.

Good numbers of Skylark in Song.

Meadow Pipit.....30 + in surrounding fields.

Sixteen Lapwing displaying and being harassed by several Carrion Crows.

Seven Curlew on pasture, feeding.

Pair of Reed Bunting in western gully.

Four Pair Canada Goose in fields fields two on water.

Pair Goldeneye and three pair Mallard.

Pair of Raven flying over north.

Very few gulls...single Great Black-backed, six Black-headed, two Lesser Black-backed.

Three Cormorant on top of pylon.

Several Pied Wagtail along shore.

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A little of interest during a late afternoon circuit after the rain had cleared:

2 Goldeneye and 8 Goosander.

2 Curlew and 10 Lapwing.

3 Pied Wagtail.

Only 45 Black Headed Gull in the roost.



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Fri 15/2 15:00-16:15 lovely afternoon walk with cool SE breeze ( hoping for a harbinger of Spring but no meadow pipits skylark curlew oystercatcher nor redshank seen nor heard)

As I got out of my car c 50 lapwings and 70 starling erupted out of Bird in' th Field ( second filed east of re) probably caused by a bop possibly a peregrine braise of the panic?

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Lapwing 105 on rocky north shore by road wall
Goosander 5 fem
Goldeneye 2 males and 2 ad females
Herring gull 11 mostly juvs
Common gull 1 imm
L Bb gull 1 ad
B hd gull over 120 when I left

Cormorant 1ad in breeding plumage

Grey wagtail in west overflow channel


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Stonechat, Grey Wagtail and a Meadow Pipit in the overflow channel this morning.  Also seen around Cheesden Bar ( Lancs) Woodcock, Jack Snipe and several Snipe..4 Goldeneye on the Reservoir. 



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7 Greylag Geese flew in at last light (seldom seen here) and now 9 Goldeneye present.  



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Had a reply re colour ringed Herring Gull . Another Norwegian bird .. there were at least 8 black ringed Gulls at the reservoir last Autumn that were more than likely all from Norway judging by the info from the one's I could read..CR-Code Black ring with white code: JCN08 LBM;RBNW(JCN08)

Ringing Centre Stavanger Museum (Norway) Ring number FA42196

Species Herring Gull Larus argentatus

Sex Unknown Age Pullus

Date Place Coordinates Observers Days/km/°

02.07 2015 Vorakletten, Sandsøya, Sande, Møre og 

Romsdal, Norway 

62°14'41"N 005°29'17"E Støyle Bringsvor, 

Ingar

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04.08 2015 Sandshamn, Sandsøya, Sande, Møre og 

Romsdal, Norway 

62°15'08"N 005°28'58"E Støyle Bringsvor, 

Ingar

33/1/341

14.08 2015 Sandshamn, Sandsøya, Sande, Møre og 

Romsdal, Norway 

62°15'08"N 005°28'58"E Støyle Bringsvor, 

Ingar

43/1/341

17.08 2015 Sandshamn, Sandsøya, Sande, Møre og 

Romsdal, Norway 

62°15'08"N 005°28'58"E Støyle Bringsvor, 

Ingar

46/1/341

25.01 2018 Sandshamn, Sandsøya, Sande, Møre og 

Romsdal, Norway 

62°15'08"N 005°28'58"E Støyle Bringsvor, 

Ingar

938/1/341

26.03 2018 Sandshamn, Sandsøya, Sande, Møre og 

Romsdal, Norway 

62°15'08"N 005°28'58"E Støyle Bringsvor, 

Ingar

998/1/341

03.04 2018 Sandshamn, Sandsøya, Sande, Møre og 

Romsdal, Norway 

62°15'08"N 005°28'58"E Støyle Bringsvor, 

Ingar

1006/1/341

25.11 2018 Ashworth Moor, Manchester (Greater), Great 

Britain 

53°38'22"N 002°15'32"W Archer, Robert 1242/1059/208



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Dusk 16:15-17:00 very windy and dull difficult observing conditions estimates below

B hd gull c. 1,000

H Gull c 100

Common gull c 200

G Bb gull c 40

Goosander 5 flew in
Lapwing 13 flew out after dark in three parties

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148 Great Black-backed Gull in the roost this evening. 6 Goldeneye also present. 



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Interesting reply re a ringed Great Black-backed Gull seen at the reservoir earlier this year

Resightings of a Colour Ringed Gull

Thank you for your report of a CR-ringed Gull. Under you will find the details. In the 

event the bird is dead and you still posses the ring(s), we kindly urge you to send (them) 

to us. Resightings of our CR-ringed Gulls could be reported to Lista Ringing Group, Box 

171, 4558 Vanse, Norway, on E-mail: gulls@ringmerking.no or the WEB page 

https://www.ringmerking.no/cr.

This list of ringingdata and ring reading data is intended for personal use only. If you 

want to publish data from this list please contact us before publication;

For birds ringed in Norway;

Morten Helberg at email morten.helberg@bio.uio.no

For birds ringed in Denmark;

Kjeld T. Pedersen at email ktpedersen@snm.ku.dk

CR-Code Black ring with white code: JX106 LBM;RBNW(JX106)

Ringing Centre Stavanger Museum (Norway) Ring number 3031293

Species Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus

Sex Unknown Age Pullus

Date Place Coordinates Observers Days/km/°

16.06 2018 Hornøya, Vardø, Finnmark, Norway 70°23'20"N 031°09'25"E Reiertsen, Tone 

Kristin

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20.11 2018 Ashworth Moor, Manchester (Greater), Great 

Britain 

53°38'22"N 002°15'32"W Archer, Robert 157/2490/23



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Great White Egret just flown SW over the Reservoir heading in direction of Affetside .....bit of a surprise.  2nd record here for me . 



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Had a reply today re a ringed Great Black-backed Gull in November..

 
Thanks for reporting your sighting of the colour ringed gull.
 
 We didn't ring many ( around 50 ) Great black backed Gulls so its always good to get a sighting.
 
Ringing details are below:-
 

Colour ring number 3T0B

 

BTO ring number MA4101

Species Great Black Backed Gull (Larus marinus)

 

Age when rung BTO code 10

 

Ringing Site, Harewood Whin, York (53.960 -1.177)

 

Date of ringing  26th October 2015

 

Yours is the first sighting since it was rung

 

Best Regards

 

Mike

 



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1st winter Yellow-legged Gull roosted on the reservoir again this evening. 23 Goosander and 3 Goldeneye also on the reservoir 



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A few more duck around this afternoon with 6 Goldeneye, 6 Tufted Duck, 42 Goosander and 12 Teal. Couldnt find anything noteworthy in the modest Gull roost. 



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Interesting reply re ringed Herring Gulls at the reservoir recently ,

Rob,

 

Thank you for reporting your sightings of colour ringed Gulls.

 

They are birds which were ringed at Harewood Whin landfill site, to the west of York, (53.960 -1.177). The birds were caught using a Cannon Net and are from the total of around 2500 Gulls which were caught and colour ringed over a 3year period from March 2015.

 

Harewood Whin was one of the decreasing number of Landfill sites in the UK where it was possible to operate for the catching and ringing of gulls. The landfill site has now closed and no longer attracts large number of Gulls. Whilst with us the Gulls used to 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.

 

One of the main reasons for carrying out this work was to examine if and how the movements of Gulls altered with the closure of the Landfill site which used to be a major food source throughout the year.

 

To date there have been over 1700 sightings reported from as far apart as the Barents Sea and Morocco.

 

Ringing details and subsequent sightings are given below

 

I hope you find this of interest and many thanks for taking the time to report your sightings.

 

Best Regards

 

Mike Jackson

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ringing details are as follows:-

 

 

 

Colour ring number Y:D07

 

 

 

BTO ring number GV54829

 

 

 

Age when rung BTO code 10

 

 

 

Site, Harewood Whin, York  (53.960 -1.177)

 

 

 

Date of ringing 31st May 2017

 

Previously sighted at Skelton Lake, West Yorkshire on 21st January 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colour ring number Y:C82

 

 

 

BTO ring number GV54802

 

 

 

Age when rung BTO code

 

 

 

Site, Harewood Whin, York  (53.960 -1.177)

 

 

 

Date of ringing 31st May 2017

 

 

 

Previously sighted at Roker Beach, Sunderland on 9th February 2018

 

 



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Not a huge amount of interest this morning. 4 Goldeneye and 13 Teal on the water and small numbers of the common 5 species of Gull. 125 Lapwing roosting on the north side.



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Another different Norwegian ringed Great Black-backed Gull on the north shore this evening.  (Could only get the J on black with 5 letters/numbers and that was it but thats enough to know its from Norway).

Regarding Sundays Caspian Gull X86A, Ian has scrutinised all the photo's I passed over and in his opinion it passes the criteria for a pure Caspian Gull rather than a hybrid.. No trace of the bird for me this evening though..



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Had a speedy reply from Dr Ronald Klein re Sundays ringed Caspian Gull.X86A..( copy of report and location below). The bird is listed as a Caspian Gull ringed on 3rd June 2018 on Hiddensee, Northern Germany and travelled 1107km  to Rochdale of all places..! There are many hybrids and its true purity is a matter of debate..



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A good few hours in the cold today watching Gulls.. At least 5 colour ringed birds seen during the day. 3 could not be positively identified due to dirty black rings, but a Herring Gull had a Black 5 alpha numeric ring beginning J to show it was ringed in South Norway. Another Black ring on a 1st Winter Great Black-backed Gull was too far to read and a Yellow ringed Herring Gull just would not show its numbers..

The two others ( shown below) were  Herring Gull Y:D07 and Caspian Gull X86A, though again after checking details re the ring on crbirding the possibility of a hybrid, (even though I have a ring number) cannot be eliminated as some birds are ringed as chicks and even the ringers do not know the parentage of the birds. The X86A ring number whatever the combination of Gulls comes back to Germany.. Will forward details and await reply.. 



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Two more ringed Great Black-backed Gull's again today, though frustratingly could not get the first letter of one of them to identify it positively.. It was either from Finland or Norway ( 2 letters/3 numbers on Black) but it refused to show me the crux letter. The other was yesterdays JX106..

The Gull with the deformed beak was on the north shore again today and is a regular visitor.

 



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Funnily enough just had this reply .. it was A:B59...
Thanks for the report of A:B59 (GR66177).  This bird was ringed as a chick on Lady Isle, near Troon, south Ayrshire, south-west Scotland on 8/7/13.  Strangely enough this is the first sighting of this bird since it was ringed as a chick, so it is good to see that it is still alive.  It is unusual that Herring Gulls move so far from their natal so this is an interesting observation.
 
Thanks again for your report, without help from people like yourself colour ringing schemes like this would not be as successful.
 

 

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