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Monday, 21 December 2009

We have movement!

Yes, at approximately midday today we received word from two of the tagged kites.  This time contact did not come through as a scrambled mish mash of unusable digits (something we have become so accustomed to over the past few weeks) rather we were provided with actual GPS positions.  These offer much more accurate tracking of each of the kites and it is this information which we upload onto the website map.  Enough of all that, so where are all the kites I hear you ask??!  Well as mentioned the data came through for 2 kites in particular - Swooper Trooper, Culbokie Primary School's kite and another kite as yet unnamed but with tag number 83675.  This last kite is not available for tracking on the website just yet but was tagged at the same time as the rest of the kites and we have been monitoring her moves just as closely.  Some detail now and between the 10th and 12th December, Swooper Trooper had been moving between the Newton of Ferintosh, Maryburgh and Kilmuir areas of the black isle.  The female kite with tag number 83675 has also been exploring in much the same area, most recently wandering over to Dochfour by Loch Ness, where she was on the 19th Dec.

Brilliant to receive news from these two and this makes us more confident that in the coming weeks the sat tags on the rest of the kites will start performing a bit better than they have done recently.  Today being the shortest day of the year we can only look forward to an increase in the amount of daylight reaching the tags and charging them up so keep dropping by for the latest kite updates.