03/04/2022 – You may remember that last April one of our colour-marked Coot, white ‘FJX’, was see in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation (see snippet below)
Well, the story continues….
He was seen back on the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens (where he was ringed in February 2017) on both 13th & 15th March 2022. This is an incredible journey of over 4,000km and is the first UK-ringed Coot ever to go to Russia and return to the UK.
Current world events aside, he has now been dubbed ‘Vladimir Cootin’ (by some wag on Twitter).