Saturday, 20 February 2010

Spey making contact..

News of yet another bird and the sat tag on Spey's back has started to warm up again since we last heard from him back on the 14th November.  On the 17th February we received a run of data from this tag, mostly unusable since instead of positions it kept giving us messages that the tag was running low on voltage.  We did get through one position placing Spey in the 'general' area of Bogallan so we are pretty confident that this bird is also staying fairly close to home for the time being.  Again, these tags all seem to need a big boost of sunlight over the next week to reach their optimum transmitting potential but we have seen from others that once they receive this they generally appear to be getting back on track as it were!

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