The Lincolnshire Bird Club

The following birds all appear to be wandering juveniles spreading north into Lincolnshire...

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Red Kite white/blue – Number 12.
Seen near A607 Wellingore Hill, Lincs - SK 981 564 - 30th March 2011 (reported by Ged Woodthorpe)

Ringed at Fineshade near Duddington 18/06/2010. Seen in local roost 06/11/2010.

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Red Kite White/Blue - E1
Seen at Colsterworth Landfill , Lincs SK 905 243 – 6th March 2011

Ringed at Milton Estate 21/06/2010.

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Red Kite White/Blue 83
Seen at Colsterworth Landfill , Lincs SK 905 243 – 6th March 2011

Ringed at Ashton Wold 15/06/2010. Recorded in local roost 21/11/2010.

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Red Kite White/Blue R
Seen at Colsterworth Landfill, Lincs SK 905 243 – 9th March 2011

Ringed near Lowick 15/06/2010. In local roost 07/11/2010 and at Colsterworth Landfill 12/12/2010.

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All the best

Andrew

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Andrew Chick
Website: http://www.forktail.co.uk/

If anyone else has anymore RED KITE tag records (but, hasn't had anything back from the colour-ring system) please forward to me and I am happy to chase them up.

Thanks

Andrew

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Andrew Chick
Website: http://www.forktail.co.uk/

These are my winter tag records from Colsterworth landfill (blue tags ringed in 2010, pink tags in 2009) - to end of February only noting guidance on breeding birds

White-blue R - you have given details already but I saw this bird on 12 Dec 10 and once subsequently

White - blue A2 - a Lincs ringed bird - seen 4 Dec 10

White - blue E9 - Northants bird - seen 4 times between 28 Nov 10 and 18 Dec 10

White - pink 1 - Rutland bird - seen once 4 Dec 10

White - pink 2 - sibling of white-pink 1 - seen 4 times between 28 November and March

White - pink 74 - seen once 12 Dec - not had a return on this yet - this bird taken into care early in the new year but subsequently rehabilitated I believe.

Also had one purple (2007) tagged bird (28 Nov 10) whose number I couldn't read. Still need to send some of my recent records in to BTO

If my sums are right this means at least 10 tagged kites used the site this winter - and as tagged birds are nearly always a minority of those seen, gives an indication of turnover of birds using the site (but also some longer term stayers).

Vin