Colour-ringed Herring Gull Larus argentatus @ het Zuiderduin

Seen there and read by me today, for a second time this spring. We met before in 2011 when this gull could be read repeatedly during the summer. Colour-rings: LW/GY, ringing place: NL Schiermonnikoog, Oosterkwelder 5329N-0609E, ringing age: nestling, ringing date: 16-07-05 sex: unknown, ringer: Otto Overdijk. The bird on the right is a Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres.

Colour-ringed Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus @ Rottumeroog

Seen in breeding habitat on April 13 2013. Where does it come from..?

 

April 23: It turned out that there was a light blue tibia ring involved. It appeared on one of the photos too. I recently got informed that it is a bird ringed in Beltringharder Koog (Germany) on June 18, 2010. It was seen there regularly during the following summers, once with three chicks. Only two days after my observation of this bird on Rottumeroog it was noticed in Beltringharder Koog again and read there by Dominic Cimiotti for the first time this year. There were are no records of this bird during winter months. I remember seeing quite a lot of them around Aveiro, Portugal, so you could start to look for it there around that time.

 

Siberian spring @ Rottumeroog, The Netherlands...

Photos of an entertaining stay on the Dutch island ‘Rottumeroog’, March 8 – 11

A colleague and I joined three other Forestry Service employees, as we made preparations for another field season out at Rottumeroog, starting on April 2^nd. Long rains, blizzards, impressive wind forces coming in from the east, bringing in low temperatures, all could not prevent us from finishing the work successfully, while having a wonderful time.

The only moment a scope got used was when an adult female Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus perched on ‘the Kaap’ for a short time, after its unsuccessful attempt to catch a Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna. The bird was not ringed.

More about this visit can be found in the near future on the Forestry Service’s blog: http://staatsbosbeheerrottum.wordpress.com