That was the title of an e-mail I received this evening from Renaud Flamant, one of the coordinators of Mediterranean Gull colour-ringing on the Continent.The story of Green 31Y is told in the 2008 Ceredigion Bird Report. Ringed as a third year bird near Antwerp in April 2001, it used to spend the non-breeding season on the Ceredigion coast, often at Borth, far from its nesting area on the Belgium North Sea coast.
It returned to Borth early last July and my last sighting of it was on 23rd September, a few days after I had taken this photograph of it.
Sadly it was found dead at Lampeter on 26th October.