OUR Kite Histories

Kite No: X0

Wing Tag Left/Right: Pink/Yellow

Kite Name: N/A

Fledged: near Lintzford

Male/Female: Unknown

Parents: Father –Untagged/ Mother - Untagged

Brief Summary: Wing tag X0 can only be identified from a visual sighting or by its leg ring number if picked up dead or injured. WT X0 is from a brood of only one from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. 

Latest Sighting: 04/07/22 -nest empty - juvenile, wing tag X0 seen flying well and making an accomplished perching.

Kite No: X1

Wing Tag Left/Right:Pink/Yellow

Kite Name: N/A

Fledged: South Snods Edge, Northumberland

Male/Female: Unknown

Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged

Brief Summary: Wing tag X1 can only be identified from a visual sighting or by it leg ring number if picked up dead or injured. WT X1 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scot’s Pine tree. One of Its siblings is WT X2. The third chick in the brood was not wing tagged.

Latest Sighting: Not visually ID’d since fledging

Kite No: X2

Wing Tag Left/Right: Pink/Yellow

Kite Name: N/A

Fledged: 2021: South Snod’s Edge, Northumberland

Male/Female: Unknown

Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged.

Brief Summary: Wing tag X2 can only be identified from a visual sighting or by its leg ring number if picked up dead or injured. WT X2 is one of a brood of three from a nest built in a Scots Pine. One of its siblings is WT X1 . Its other sibling was not wing tagged.

Latest Sighting:  Wing tag X2 has not been individually identified since fledging. 

Kite No: X3

Wing Tag Left/Right: Pink/Yellow

Kite Name: N/A

Fledged: 2021: Derwentcote, Derwent Valley, Gateshead 

Male/Female: Unknown

Parents: Father – Untagged / Mother - Untagged.

Brief Summary: Wing tag X3 can only be identified from a visual sighting or by its leg ring number if picked up dead or injured. WT X3 is one of a brood of two from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its sibling is WT X4. 

Latest Sighting: There have been no sightings of wing tag X3 since fledging. 

Kite No: X4

Wing Tag Left /Right: Pink/Yellow

Kite Name: N/A

Fledged: 202: Derwentcote, Derwent Valley, Gateshead

Male/Female: Unknown

Parents: Father - Untagged/ Mother- Untagged.

Brief Summary: Wing tag X4 can only be identified from a visual sighting or by its leg ring number if picked up dead or injured. WT X4 is one of a brood of two from a nest built in a Scots Pine tree. Its siblings is WT X3. 

04/07/22- nest empty. Wing tag X4 was perched under the canopy then it flew out and circled the nest wood with adult in moult.

Latest Sighting: 17/02/23 - Wing tag X4 was identified whilst at a pre roost gathering anear Hamsterley Hall.