Great
News!!
The
re-colonisation of
The number of sightings in
More
detailed information about last year’s successful nest can be found on the 2006
Progress Report page, whilst the history and ecology of Kites, and the work
of the
Nest Sites and Breeding Success
A
total of five young fledged from three of the six nests found in 2007. Two of
the nests were in the
Elsewhere
in the AONB, the pair at last year’s successful nest site produced two fledged
young, and a new site produced another fledged young (and there was one broken
egg in this nest). The sixth nest
apparently failed at around the time that the eggs would have hatched.
Other
reports received, of two or more birds together at the start of the breeding
season, and subsequent sightings in the same areas on several occasions later in
the season, suggest that there may perhaps have been breeding attempts at up to
three other sites. However, no evidence of breeding was found at any of these
sites.
These reports include one of three together
in late May and another of five in early June, following silage cutting in the
Over 20 individual Red Kites must have
summered in the County, so it is likely that more nests will be found next year.
The bird pictured here was seen over Rodington on 17th May 2007 (photo Paul King), one of the many wandering birds reported in Shropshire.
Tagged Birds
The
male Red Kite at one of the new successful site had an orange wing tag “h”
of the Welsh colour scheme, indicating that it was ringed in the nest in 2005 at
the Herefordshire site around 12 kilometres distant i.e. the bird was 2 years
old.
The
male Red Kite at one of the new unsuccessful nests, and one of the two birds at
the unsuccessful site in the
Three
of the five fledged young were tagged in the nest.
One
of the two young tagged in the first recently-known successful nest in 2006 was
observed near the top of the hill south-east of Stoney Pound in the Clun Uplands
on
Nest Trees
Three
of the nests were in oak trees and there was one each in ash, larch and Douglas
fir. At the nest site which has been
occupied for each of the last three years, three different trees within about
100 m have been used in an extensive oak wood.
Reports wanted
please