Essex Girl

Pete L kindly sent me this response from the BTO regarding a ringed Cormorant he saw on the West Warwick on Sunday:

 

	Query	Response
1	Transaction	CRING1315253375839-Cormorant
2	Full name	Pete L
3a	Address 1
3b	Address 2
3c	Address 3	London
3d	Address 4
4	Postcode/Zip code
5	E-mail
6	Country	GB
7	Type of bird (if known)	Cormorant
8	Sex of bird (if known)	U
9	Age of bird (if known)	Appeared adult
10a	Was the bird -	alive
10b	How long has the bird been dead?	-
11a	What happened to the bird? (e.g. caught by cat, hit by car, oiled on beach etc.)	-
11b	What happened to the bird? (e.g. entered house, tangled in garden netting, stunned hitting window - later released etc.)	It was perched on a jetty and flew off.
11c	Please give further details of the circumstances if you can (e.g. ring only found in drawer, found by metal detector)	-
12	Country	GB
13	County/province	Essex
14a	Location	Walthamstow Reservoirs
14b	Location extra	West Warwick
15	Coordinates/gridreference	TQ 348 880
16a	Date (dd/mm/yyyy)	04/09/2011
16b	Date (approx)
17	Please enter any further remarks that you may like to add that will assist in the processing of the ring recovery.
18	Nasal saddle (colour and code)
19	Neck collar (colour and code)
20	Left wing tag (colour and code)
21	Right wing tag (colour and code)
22	Leg ring (colour and code)	Orange ring, CH4 code
23	Left above knee
24	Left below knee
25	Right above knee
26	Right below knee
27	Lan	EN

This colour-ringed cormorant orange CH4 (metal ring G1774) was ringed as a chick in the nest at Abberton Reservoir, Essex on the 26th April 2009, as part of a project coordinated by Jez Blackburn at the BTO. Since this time, there has been just one previous re-sighting; Brent Reservoir on the 13th February 2011.