Catching gulls with North Thames Gull Group and update on recoveries

Last weekend I went to London to join Paul and guys from North Thames Gull Group. I arrived to London on Friday evening and first catch was on Saturday morning. I won't write much about the catch itself, I'll let photos talk for me. Details about catch can be found on NTGG site. It was the first tima I ringed LBBG and HG(beside that atipical one I cought last winter).

Pitsea

Compactor attracting gulls

Catch of 366 gulls :)

Gulls are packed in hessian sacks

Me ringing my very first fuscus ever :)

Me and my first adult Herring Gull

Team on last day in Rainham

Me with fuscus (not first one but much better photo)

It was really a great weekend for me! Thanx Paul for everything!!

In the meantime I got the very first recovery of one of our BHGs in Romania:) white S044 was ringed on Jakusevec in December 2009. and found on March 18th 2011. in Sanpaul, Romania.


There was one more first one.. First canus found in Hungary :) white S126 was ringed on Jakusevec in December 2009. and was found in Debrecen, Hungary on March 19th 2011. Before that S126 was in winter  2010 three times seen in Isola della Cona,Staranzano,Gorizia, Italy.

Most of BHGs are gone from Zagreb.. only big gulls are here..

BHGs are leaving Zagreb ..Update on recoveries

With end of ringing season BHGs are leaving Zagreb.

Krešo, Sven and I were on Jakusevec on Saturday in search or ringed gulls. It was very windy and we had problem keeping tripods still. We managed to read 7 BHG ring and 7 YLG rings.. All ringed in Croatia ..

These last 10 days since we closed ringing season were very good with recoveries. I got 49 recoveries in March :)

There is a growth of group of people in Novi Sad  who are reading color rings on gulls. With every new recovery I get few new names :) 15 recoveries in March.

photo Katarina Paunović

Austrian guys are active also. I think they'll have more recoveries in days to come.. 10 recoveries in March.

photo: Wolfgang Schweighofer

In March I got 2 recoveries from Poland.

photo: Piotr Kendzierski

photo: Bartosz Janiszewski

7 recoveries from Hungary in March.

photo Lengyel Attila

photo Lengyel Attila

photo Peter Szinai

In March I processed 9 recoveries from Croatia.

photo Davor Krnjeta

photo Davor Krnjeta

White S165 is in Malmo, Sweden from November and was (untill now) seen two times in March; on March 12th by Kjeld Tommy Pedersen and Jesper Brinkmann and on March 15th by Eddie Fritze.

photo K.T. Pedersen

Few days ago I got e-mail from Marco Basso that he got photo of one of my gulls in Switzerland. It's only the second recovery of Croatian BHG in Switzerland ever. There's a photo of it on Marco's web here .

That's it for now..

Cannon netting part 12 or closing of gull rubbish winter season

I knew this weekend will come from the first cannon netting session in December! :(

Ok, enough for pathetic beginning..

Yesterday Vedran, Sven, Lejla and I went to Jakuševec to catch some gulls. Expectations were not high because of last few sessions.. We set the net at 7:46 and waited for first gulls to come to the catching area for more than one hour.

First catch was 13 BHGs. After we ringed them, we went to wait for second catch. It was some 20 minutes later and it was bigger, 25 BHGs..

BHGs in hessian sack

After that one more catch. this one we didn't wait long and we fired because one of YLGs had metal ring. We manage to catch it :) It was Italian:) we added orange ring to it.

It was more gulls than I expected :) And ok closing of winter gull seasson.

I'd like to thank Lejla for photos.

I'll give totals for the winter in next few days..

Closing of Swan season

Yesterday Vedran, Zec, Ivana and I went to catch some swans in Zagreb area. As usual we went to two bigest lakes in Zagreb ; Bundek and Jarun.

On Bundek there were some 30 swans but they didn't seem very hungry.. We managed to catch 7 of them. Not bad for this time of year.

Old friend that we ringed on Bundek in February 2007.

At that time we tought that it will be better at Jarun. But..

On JArun, statistically, we manage to catch 60% of all Swans present :) We cought 3 out of 5 :)

Among the swans caught there was one from Poland

plus one with Hungarian neck band and Croatian leg ring.


In the meantime Marko is still active in _Novi Sad.. 7 new BHG rings.. 4 of them Croatian :)

Many many recoveries

Yesterday I was offline all day, so it was great opportunity for all observers to fill my inbox with recoveries :)

It was one of the best days for recoveries.

I got 2 BHGs from Hungary ( one new and one old) and  4 from Austria ( one new and three old)

SB45 March 1st 2011, Wien

 On Monday Marko Šćiban sent me an e-mail that he saw  BHG with white ring and one with red ring but he was unable to read them with binoculars or from photos.

BHG with white ring February 28th 2011 , Novi Sad

So he decided to visit the place with scope and results are 6 of our BHGs white ring read  :) plus 3 Hungarian red rings. Great job!
Funny thing is that the one mentioned few lines before as new for Hungary (S408 ringed January 14 2007 on Jakuševec, seen on February 17 2011 in Mohács, Hungary) was one of the BHGs Marko seen.

And the star of the day is adult cachinnans ringed on Jakuševec on December 19th 2010

seen by Adriano Talamelli on January 10th 2011 on Dump of Tavullia,Pesaro, Italy.

and was seen by Damian Wiehle on February 28th 2011 in Krakow, Vistula river, Poland.

First BHG in Spain

This week started good with "first in" ones :) 

Few minutes ago Miguel McMinn Grivé reported a BHG with white S810 that he saw yesterday in Moll Vell de Palma de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Island of Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. It's the very first one in of our BHGs found in Spain. 

It was ringed on Jakuševec on February 22nd 2009. More than 1200km from recovery place..

 

View S810 in a larger map

First BHG in Denmark

After all thing that happend yesterday I finally got one good news. Anders  Nielsen wrote me that he saw BHG with white S146 in Caroline Amalielund, Svendborg, Funen, Denmark. The gull was ringed on Jakuševec on December 20th 2009 and doesn't have any more recoveries yet. Nice one, some 1100 km and first BHG ringed in Croatia and found in Denmark.. ever :)

Prikaži S146 na većoj karti

Cannon netting part 11

This day should have changed the history of ringing gulls at Jakuševec. The weather was fine, few degrees below zero.. It was the first time that we try to ring on Saturday. Usually we catch on Sunday because there are no trucks or people.. This time we were helped by compactor driver who was putting fresh garbage in front of the net. Driver was ok but we just couldn't agree on all things. Maybe we should try it one more time.

Position of the net( trough car window)

But this day was everything but good.. We had 4 catches, all BHGs, 2,4,13 and 5 birds respectively :( All together 24 gulls. Only good thing was one BHG with Gdansk Ring. We added white SB11 ring.

 

I think we'll go back to ringing on Sundays.. It looked like we get higher concentrations on bread and sausages.. Also it's worth mentioning that the net was not spreading the way it should so we got much smaller catching area..

Our help :)

This is what we didn't catch :(

First Baltic look like Gulls are here :) Forgot to mention it last week.

Photos of canus in Austria

 Today  Günther Wöss  sent me some photos of that canus in Wien.


Thanx!

Great news from Austria

Few minutes ago I got mail from Wolfgang Schweighofer with some recoveries. Last weekend Austrians had what they call RingReadingTour 201. They read 9 different BHGs and one CG ring. It's the first recovery of Common Gull in Austria!! Until now we had recoveries from Croatia and Italy only. 

There are some photos on their forum 

Guys also read BHG with white S056. This one has great life history :)
December 2006 ringed in Budapest, Hungary by Csortos Csaba
December 2007 metal ring read in Steyr-Mündung, Austria by Wolfgang Schweighofer
December 2009 I cought it and added white S056 on Jakuševec
August 2010 colour ring read in Maashees, Holland by Rob Voesten
and finally February 2011 Christoph Roland, Günther Wöss, Eddie Fritze and Thomas Trapela read the colour ring in Wasserpark, Floridsdorf, Wien, Austria

Good start of the weekend :)