After a few hours seawatching in the bracing wind at Cley coastguards, watching the seabirds heading east or west along the coast ( Red-throated Diver, Gannet, Brent Goose, Gullemot, Razor-bill, Widgeon, Teal, Med Gull, Common Gull, Cormorant, Long-tailed Skua, Arctic Skua, Shelduck, Sanderling, Turnstone, Grey Plover, Hobby and Meadow Pipit covers most of what went by) we took some scraps along to the Salthouse duck pond to feed to the gulls, hoping to find any ringed birds returned for the winter.
It was great to see that J9Z5 was back. This Black-headed Gull was ringed in 2013 in Norway and has been recorded at the duck pond every winter, since arriving there as a second winter bird in 2014.
Long may he/she continue to return (and the plastic darvic continue to stand up to the rigours of gull life.)