Our Red Kite Histories
Kites fledged in 2020 (P0 to S5)
Kite No: P0
Wing Tag Left/Right: Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Causey Gill, Co. Durham.
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – WT83 Red Saint / Mother - Untagged
Brief Summary: WTP0 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTP0 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Sycamore tree. Its sibling are WTP1 and WTP2. There was part of a grey woolly hat in the nest.
Latest Sighting: 08/10/20 – Wing tag P0 was amongst thirty three kites which dropped into the roost in Pontburn Wood, near Hamsterley Hall. This is the only sighting of this bird since fledging.
Kite No: P1
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Causey Gill, Co Durham.
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – WT83 Red Saint / Mother - Untagged
Brief Summary: WTP1 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTP1 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Sycamore tree. Its siblings are WTP0 and WTP3There was part of a grey woolly hat in the nest.
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of P1 since fledging.
Kite No: P2
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Causey Gill, Co. Durham
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – WT83 Red Saint / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: WTP2 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTP2 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Sycamore tree. Its siblings are WTP0 and WTP2. There was part of a grey woolly hat in the nest.
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of P2 since fledging
Kite No: P3
Wing Tag Left/Right: Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Hamsterley Mill, Co. Durham
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: WTP3 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTP3 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its siblings are WTP4 and WTP5. There was a bit of plastic and a dish cloth in the nest.
Latest Sighting: 04/11/20 - Wing tag P3 was identified from a photograph taken from above the Feldon Burn on the B6278 Edmondbyers to Stanhope road. P3 was “playing” (talon grappling and swooping) with two other kites, one of those was also tagged.
Kite No: P4
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Hamsterley Mill, Co. Durham
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father - Untagged/ Mother- Untagged.
Brief Summary: WT P4 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT P4 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its siblings are WT P3 and WT P5. There was a bit of plastic and a dish cloth in the nest.
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of P4 since fledging.
Kite No: P5
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Hamsterley Mill, Co. Durham
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: WT P5 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT P5 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its siblings are WT P3 and WT P4. There was a bit of plastic and a dish cloth in the nest.
Latest Sighting: 05/01/22 - Wing tag P5 was identified at a pre roost gathering near Hamsterley Mill in the Pontburn Valley with seventy other kites present in the area.
Kite No: P6
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Derwentcote, Co. Durham
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father - Wing tag L6 / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag P6 can only identified from a visual sighting. WTP6 is one of a brood of two from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its sibling was too small for wing tagging and was ringed only. A disposable nappy was found in the nest
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of P6 since fledging.
Kite No: P7
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Lintzford, Co Durham
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – WT H0 / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag P7 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT P7 is one of a brood of two chicks (its sibling is WT P8) from a nest built in a Scots Pine. There was a rabbit’s foot, some baby wipes and a dishcloth found in the nest.
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of P7 since fledging.
Kite No: P8
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White.
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Lintzford, Co. Durham.
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – WT H0 / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag P8 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTP8 was one of a brood of two chicks (its sibling is WTP7) from a nest built in a Scots Pine. There was a rabbit’s foot, some baby wipes and a dishcloth found in the nest.
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of P8 since fledging
Kite No: P9
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Dipton, near Riding Mill, Northumberland
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father - Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag P9 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTP9 was one of a brood of two chicks from a nest built in a Larch tree. P9’s sibling is S0. There was a curlew’s leg found in the nest.
A calling Kite and a wing tagged juvenile on the 23rd July and a pair with a juvenile on the 31stJuly near the nest site could have been P9or its sibling S0.
Latest Sighting: Wing tag P9 was seen with another kite when perched in a garden in Smailes Lane, Rowlands Gill.
Kite No: S0
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Dipton, near Riding Mill, Northumberland.
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father - Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag S0 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTS0 was one of a brood of two chicks from a nest built in a Larch tree. S0’s sibling is P9. There was a curlews’ leg found in the nest. A calling Kite and a wing tagged juvenile on the 23rd July and a pair with a juvenile on the 31st July near the nest site could have been S0.
Latest Sighting: A juvenile seen with its parents near the nest site on the 31st July was either S0 or its sibling P9
Kite No: S1
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Snods Edge, Northumberland
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father - Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag S1 is one of a brood of four chicks from a nest built in a Scots Pine. Its three siblings were too small to wing tag and were ringed only. A brood of four is very unusual, this is only the third since breeding began in 2006. A work glove, a woolly hat and a dishcloth were found in the nest.
08/10/20 – Wing tag S1 was one of thirty three kites which dropped into roost at Pontburn Wood, near Hamsterley Hall.
23/11/20 – S1 identified whilst with three other kites at Eddy’s Bridge near Derwent Reservoir.
05/01/22: - Wing tag S1 was identified at a pre roost gathering at Southfild Farm, Pontburn Valley,near Medomsley. There were 70 other kites present.
09/01/22 - Wing tag S1 was identified at a pre roost gathering near Hamsterley Mill in the Pontburn Valley, There were 73 other kites present.
16/01/22 - Wing tag S1 was identified at a pre roost gathering near Hamsterley Mill in the Pontburn Valley. Sixty nine kites roosted in the area that evening.
17/01/22 - Wing tag S1 was identified from a photograph taken from the Pontburn Viaduct on the Derwent Walk whilst the bird was flying over Hamsterley Mill. There were nine other kites present.
Latest Sighting: 23/01/22 - Wing tag S1 was identified at a pre roost gathering of red kites near Hamsterley Mill in the Pontburn Valley. Circa sixty one kites roosted in the area that evening.
Kite No: S2
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Rowlands Gill, Gateshead
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Wing tag H5 / Mother – Wing tag N2.
Brief Summary: Wing tag S2 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTS2 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in an Oak tree situated in the garden on a residential estate. One of its siblings is WTS3. The other chick was too small to wing tag and was ringed only. A golfing glove and a hanging basket lining were found in the nest.
27//06/20 –A neighbour immediately west of nest site reports S2 on ground but the juvenile was seen to fly away some time later.
01/07/20 - S2 was noted back in the nest after it was seen grounded a few days previously.
26/01/2021- S2 was identified from a photograph taken near Sherburn Park housing estate, Rowlands Gill.
16/03/21 - S2 photographed over the fields and housing estate between Thornley Kennels and Sherburn Park Drive, Rowlands Gill,. S2 was carrying a “chicken drumstick”, and wing tag D4 was in attendance.
29/03/21 - Wing tag S2 was seen and photographed “interacting” with an untagged bird over the fields above Sherburn Towers Estate, Rowlands Gill.
21/04/21 – positive sighting of wing tag S2, firstly at Far Pastures, Lockhaugh, then on his usual stomping ground off Hollinhill Lane. Rowlands Gill. So, staying very close to his natal site. He is still very feisty either chasing off or practicing his flirting. He is very vocal and will interact with every kite that comes near.
31/08/21 - S2 was identified from a photograph taken whilst the bird was flying over fields between Byermoor and Marley Hill. It was seen interacting with an untagged kite.
Latest sighting: 26/05/22 - Wing tag S2 was identified whilst perched in a tree on the Hobson golf course near Burnopfield.
Kite No: S3
Wing Tag Left/Right: Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Rowlands Gill, Gateshead
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Wing tag H5 / Mother – Wing tag N2.
Brief Summary: Wing tag S3 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTS3 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in an Oak tree situated in the garden on a residential estate. One of its siblings is WTS2. The other chick was too small to wing tag and was ringed only. A golfing glove and a hanging basket lining were found in the nest.
28/06/20 – A “semi fledged” S3 was seen “flapping around nest tree canopy”.
13/08/20 – Wing tag S3 was identified from a photograph taken in Greenside.
09/11/20 – S3 was identified from a photograph taken in Rowlands Gill.
Latest Sighting: 30/05/21 – wing tag S3, was Identified from a photograph taken near Muggleswick. The bird appeared to have been shot at, there was a tail feather missing and half of one of the primary feathers on the right wing was also missing
Kite No: S4
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Gibside, Gateshead
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father - Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag S4 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTS4 is one of a brood of two from a nest built in a Beech tree on the Gibside Estate. Its sibling is WTS5. An infertile egg, a piece of white rag and two black socks were found in the nest.
Latest Sighting: 30/09/20 – 10am - S4, and its sibling S5, were identified amongst twelve birds gathering near the Rowlands Gill viaduct.
Kite No: S5
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/White
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2020 Gibside, Gateshead
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag S5 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WTS5 is one of a brood of two from a nest built in a Beech tree on the Gibside Estate. Its sibling is WTS4. An infertile egg, a piece of white rag and two black socks were found in the nest.
02/07/20 – S5 was still in nest, its sibling S4 not seen, so presumed fledged.
Latest Sighting: 30/09/20 – 10am – S5, and its sibling S4, were identified amongst twelve birds gathering near the Rowlands Gill viaduct.