In order to read a reasonable amount of rings at the Taboeira
landfill, I realized I had to get up early and be there before the kites became
active and flush all the gulls. So, that’s what I did today; arriving at 6:55,
even before the gulls were present at the site, and reading rings until 10:08,
when the first kites flushed the birds and made further ring-reading
impossible. 15 rings were read, of which 11 from Britain, 2 from Belgium, 1
from France and 1from The Netherlands. There were about 10.000 Lesser
Black-backed Gulls present and the number of ring-readings could have been
slightly higher if there wouldn’t have been a heavy fog present for the first
two hours of observations, reducing visibility to about 50 meters.
Behind this cloud there should be a LBBG WHITE G+Y, RED inscription visible, from the hands of Peter Rock (Britain)
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