Thursday 26 July, partly cloudy, light-fresh E wind, 27C: Just an update on a colour-ringed Audouin's Gull I saw yesterday at Guadalhorce. The bird was ringed as a 1st summer bird (1 year old) on 20 June 2009 at the Estación Biológica de Doñana in Huelva, Spain - this was the first time that the bird had been controlled (reported on) since that date.

I have to say that the service from the EBD website was superb - within an hour of submitting the report it was assessed, accepted and I had been emailed access to the full ringing and observation records.