Two more from Germany and first one in Netherlands

Last year I had three observation of one BHG ringed with metal ring in Novi Sad and found in Germany (Frankfurt), but  YARN   and  YARX  are my first cr BHGs found in Germany one in far north and one in south part.

 YARN  was seen on 16.07.2013 by Olaf and Barbara Ekeloef and  YARX  was seen on 09.07.2013 by Franz Kretschmar both birds were ringed on 06.03.2013 in Novi Sad.

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09.08.2013  YASB  was seen in  Netherland by Jaap van der Linden, the bird was ringed on 06.03.2013 in Novi Sad.

This was my first one in Netherlands :)

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Spring time

On 10.05.2013 we went to count nests to colonies on Palic lake, last year here were nesting around 1500 pairs of BHGs and about 150 Med gulls. This year we count 850 nests of BHG and 43 of Med gulls.

Otto and Anna counting nests

In first few minutes of this video you can see last year situation on the Palic lake island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sykyTqVD28c&t=190


So in a next few days I started to prepare rings and i was really hoping to use them all.

But then came rain and it was raining more than 3 weeks, so on 8th June we went to ringing chicks and we didn't belive that we find to many gulls. Rain and cold wheather came in wrong time. So there was no adult or pulli Med gulls. We catch around 25 BHG chicks on island and other chicks Armin and Ferenc catch on water, while me and Tamas ringing. At the end it was ringed only 53 BHGs, hope the next year will be better for breeding gulls.