Colour Ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull

A visit to Little Marlow late afternoon on 20th March produced only a few hundred gulls, mainly Black-headed Gulls but also some Common Gulls and smaller numbers of Herring, Lesser and Greater Black-backed Gulls.  However a single adult Mediterranean Gull that was perhaps the highlight.  On closer inspection of the Gulls I came across a colour-ringed Lesser Black-Backed Gull with the ring Blue "LRA.V" on it's left leg.  It seems that this bird is almost 14 years old and although raised in Suffolk, it seems to like it across the channel in Belguim.

Both of the photos below were "phone-scoped" hence the poor quality.

Lesser-Black-Backed Gull Blue "LRAV" arrived early for the gull roost.

Mediterranean Gull only stayed a short time.