Dark-bellied Brent Geese, Barrow Harbour, 18th September 2020 (David O'Connor).
Two adults and a juvenile in an apparent family party, keeping their social distance from all the other Brent Geese. Amazingly, one of the adults was ringed. Reading the ring number through the telescope, David threw this golden information nugget out into internet-land and found out the following...
"(left white ring with black number 2, right black ring with white letter
C...making
it W2NC). After some (exhaustive!) submission research, I have learnt
that W2NC was ringed as an adult male on 28/01/2018 at Caernarfon,
Gwynedd, North Wales (not too far from Holyhead). He was recorded again
twice (apparently by the ringer) in Sept. and Oct.
of 2019 but today is the first re-sighting of it in Ireland and the
first with an apparent mate and offspring. I don't suppose there's any
way of knowing where these birds were born but I like to imagine it is
some remote, far flung corner of Siberia!"
