Red Kites

Red Kites --
We received a report of a Red Kite carrying a twig as if nesting material, the other day. Talking to Paddy, the adult kites are beginning to leave the feeding stations and return to territories now.
Any reports of Kites behaving as if they have a territory we would like to hear about, we knew of 5 successful pairs & of c5 more attempts last year. With the kites doing well and many of previous years young around the feeding stations this winter, we can expect more nesting to be attempted, even if birds are too young to be successfull.

Today I had a Red Kite over the Manor Newport, it was wing-tagged on both wings with green tags, a green tag on the right wing means the bird fledged in 2006.

Only 2 kites were fitted with a green tag on the right wing in Pembs in 2006. A green tag on the left wing means the bird was ringed in Scotland(Dumfries & Galloway). Pembs birds have a black tag with the no. & coloured bar across the bottom (difficult to see in flight) on the left wing.

There has been a left wing green tagged bird -no.111 if you could read it,(v.diff. in flight!) seen in west/mid Wales during the last 2 months!
--Interesting!