This is my first of this years chicks, it hardly seems fitting calling it a chick now as it flies like an expert. I actually watched he or she land in a field and pick up a stick and take it back to the nest tree.
Nice one, Mick! THe under tag works well, doesn't it!
I'm busy doing the Summer Newsletter - if I have room, may I use this one, as Ken talks about the under tag and this would do nicely.
You don't have to ask if you can use it.
The under wing tags were easier to see than the normal upper wing tags when the kite was facing into the sun. I forgot all about the new tags until I looked at the photographs and the tags are brilliant, even if smaller. Identifying the birds while in flight will be much easier with these.
This is my first of this years chicks, it hardly seems fitting calling it a chick now as it flies like an expert. I actually watched he or she land in a field and pick up a stick and take it back to the nest tree.
Great Picture Mick It's the first I've seen with the new wing tags as both June and yourself have mentioned much better for Identification. It does look rather grown up already.
Thanks, Mick. I have used it to accompany a poem - you'll see when you receive the Newsletter shortly.
Another one of this years tagged chicks reported in Edmundbuyers this week this one seen with two other kites identities not known. We hope they will be safe and hopefully maybe even establish a bit of a successful colony in this area.
We have good contacts in the village - one of our FoRK members, M Briggs, lives there. But it isn't the safest area for our young kites. All the buzzards have been wiped out on Muggleswick Moor and you recall we lost one of our kites and the one from the Black Isle last year.
This is my worry June we know it is not a safe area all we can do is keep everything crossed I guess.
As you know June it's a difficult area to watch as it is so vast. Hopefully you were just unlucky rather than anything more sinister. I go round that area a lot and have only ever had three sightings of Kites in the last 4 years or so. I have noticed though the lack of buzzards now which used to be seen on every trip.