Grampian Ringing Group

The food rich mud and the safety of sandbanks on the Ythan Estuary near Newburgh provide resident birds with a perfect larder and resting ar...

The last post about colour ringed gulls on this blog was about a rare movement, a Common Gull chick seen in North West Spain. We have now h...

The biggest Common Gull colonies in the UK are in North East Scotland, and this summer we started colour ringing the species for the first t...

We're now into the second year of the joint Grampian and Tay big gull project, and it's been another successful season. So far th...

On boxing day last year, me and Ewan did what most people do, and headed up to Peterhead, with a car full of bread and turkey scraps, to c...

The frustratingly mild winter we've has this year has meant that gulls haven't been very hungry, making catching them quite chal...

T:605, Duthie Park (Ewan Weston) We are now getting some interesting sightings from the gulls we've been colour ringing since t...

We've reached the end of summer and the end of our gull darvics. The 250th was put on a Lesser Black-backed Gull today, after a who...

We have been catching large gulls this summer around Aberdeen for a new colour ringing project, and caught our 100th bird today. This partic...

We have started a new colour ringing project: Herring Gulls (and Lesser and Greater Black-backed Gulls if we can get our hands on them). ...

What do you do with 17 loaves of bread, a turkey carcass, two mince rounds, a pizza and a whole salmon that Raymond has had since November? ...