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Saturday, 20 February 2010
News from Tweety Pie!
Back on the 12th February we were very relieved to make contact for the first time this year with red kite Tweety Pie (Aviemore Primary), especially since her last known position was way back on the 19th October! This batch of data wasnt fantastic in that it contained a lot of low voltage battery in place of the usual GPS positions but we were able to tentatively place Tweety Pie on the 2nd February on Brahan Estate land very close to the Black Isle. Seems like Tweety Pie's tag still needs a bit of re-booting since another, far less accurate, position also came through for the next day placing this bird thousands of miles away from here over on the Alaskan/Canadian border!! Safe to say this was pretty unlikely though, especially as this position was accompanied by very low battery voltage on the tag and I guess in these early days of re-contact we might have to be a bit wary of such exaggerated positions as the tags get back to normal! But the fantastic weather today will do wonders and we remain hopeful that we will get a bit more detail through for next week.
