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Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Tags beginning to wake up

Pleased to say that a lot of the sat tags appear to be awakening from their winter slumbers and whilst we are still not getting accurate positional data from the vast majority, this new contact continues to be most welcome.  Rounding up, in the last few days/weeks we have heard from a grand total of 9 sat tags, leaving 3 tags that we havent had anything from since before Christmas.  These remaining tags are fitted to the backs of red kites Heather, Red Rocket and Tweety Pie.  Whilst this is still worrying we can remain hopeful that we may very well tune into these tags in the coming days and weeks as has already been seen with others.

Leading onto what we do know about and we do have definate and accurate GPS positions for 2 kites in particular this week.  Red kite Swooper Trooper has once again flashed up on the radar this week and we were able to trace her movements between the 19 and 23rd Jan roaming between the Fairburn area in Easter Ross and Munlochy area on the black isle.  A welcome bit of news from Phoenix also came through placing him between the 20th and 24th ranging around the southern area of the black isle.  This has been the first usable bit of data from him since the tail end of November last year and its great to see him obviously getting out and about.  These positions have been updated on the map this afternoon so should appear online by tonight.  More news as and when it comes..