OUR Kite Histories
Kites fledged in 2021 (T0 - T8)
Kite No: T0
Wing Tag Left/Right: Pink/Red
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2021: South Snod’s Edge, Northumberland .
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged
Brief Summary: Wing tag T0 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT T0 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its sibling are WT T1 and WT T2. There was a glove and a sock in the nest.
Latest Sighting: Wing tag T0 has not been individually identified since fledging but would have been one of the family party of five seen in the area in August.
Kite No: T1
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/Red
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2021: South Snod’s Edge, Northumberland
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged
Brief Summary: Wing tag T1 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT T1 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scot’s Pine tree. Its siblings are WT T0 and WT T2. There was a glove and a sock in the nest.
Latest Sighting: Wing tag T1 has not been individually identified since fledging but would have been one of the family party of five seen in the area in August.
Kite No: T2
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/Red
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2021: South Snod’s Edge, Northumberland
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag T2 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT T2 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scots Pine. Its siblings are WT T0 and WT T1. There was a glove and a sock in the nest.
Early August - 2021: Wing tag T2 could have been one of the family party of five seen in the area at this time
09/01/22: Wing tag T2 was identified at Waskerley Pallets, just south of Healeyfield, between Smiddy Shaw Reservoir and Castleside.
Latest Sighting: 23/01/22 - Wing tag T2 was identified at a pre roost gathering near Hamsterley Mill and dropped into roost with 60 other birds.
Kite No: T3
Wing Tag Left/Right: Pink/Red
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2021: near Chopwell, Derwent Valley, Gateshead
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag T3 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT T3 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its siblings are WT T4 and WT T5. There was the remains of a young jackdaw in the nest and a dirty white cloth.
09/01/22- Wing tag T3 was sighted at a pre roost gathering near Hamsterley Mill in the Pontburn Valley,. A total of 74 kites roosted in the area that evening.
16/01/22 - Wing tag T3 was identified at a pre roost gathering near Hamsterley Mill in the Pontburn Valley, Sixty nine kites roosted in the area that evening.
23/01/22 - Wing tag T3 was identified at a pre roost gathering near Hamsterley Mill in the Pontburn Valley. Sixty one kites roosted in the area that evening.
27/05/22 - Wing tag T3 was identified from a photograph taken from the Pontburn Viaduct. T3 was in a group of five kites that lifted from trees on the Hamsterley Hall estate when disturbed by the noise of a lawnmower starting up. T3 had significant feather damage almost certainly caused by being shot at.
Latest Sighting: 29/05/22 - Wing tag T3 was again identified from a photograph. This time from a field above Ebchester in the Derwent Valley. T3 was with circa 6 other kites and the photograph confirmed the damage the bird has suffered to its feathering from being shot at.
Kite No: T4
Wing Tag Left /Right: Pink/Red
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2021: near Chopwell, Derwent Valley, Gateshead
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father - Untagged/ Mother- Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag T4 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT T4 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its siblings are WT T3 and WT T5. There was the remains of a young jackdaw in the nest anda dirty white cloth.
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of wing tag T4 since fledging.
Kite No: T5
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/Red
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2021: near Chopwell, Derwent Valley, Gateshead
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag T5 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT T5 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its siblings are WT T3 and WT T4. There was the remains of a young jackdaw in the nest and a dirty white cloth.
Latest Sighting: 24/07/21 – Wing tag was photographed whilst perched in a tree in Milkwellburn Wood, three weeks after fledging.
Kite No: T6
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/Red
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2021: Chopwell Wood, Gateshead
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father - Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag T6 can only identified from a visual sighting. WT T6 is one of a brood of two fledged from a nest built in a Sycamore tree. Its sibling is wing tag T7. A blue sponge washing up cloth, a dirty white linen cloth and some clear plastic decorated the nest.
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of wing tag T6 since fledging.
Kite No: T7
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/Red
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2021: Chopwell Wood, Gateshead.
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – WT H0 / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag T7 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT T7 is one of a brood of two chicks (its sibling is WT T6) fledged from a nest built in a Sycamore tree. A blue sponge washing up cloth, a dirty white linen cloth and some clear plastic decorated the nest.
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of T7 since fledging.
Kite No: T8
Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/Red
Kite Name: N/A
Fledged: 2021: from a garden nest on the western side of Rowlands Gill
Male/Female: Unknown
Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged.
Brief Summary: Wing tag T8 can only be identified from a visual sighting. WT T8 was one of a brood of three chicks from a nest built in a Scots Pine. It’s two siblings were too small to wing tag and were ringed only. A blue sponge washing up cloth, a dirty white linen cloth and some clear plastic decorated the nest.
Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of wing tag T8 since fledging