Kim crossed the channel reaching the Isle of Wight on the 24th May. She has taken a different route this year crossing both the Mediterranean and the Channel at wider spots. Map to be updated soon.

At 9 am on 13th May 2010 Kim was right on the Moroccan coast and by the evening had crossed the Gibralter Straits into Southern Spain

The female Honey Buzzard, Kim, has spent the entire winter within a few kilometres of where she spent last winter in central Ivory Coast and was still present on 7th April. We are expecting her to head back for Wales any time within the next fortnight.

With apologies for lack of recent postings – We've had technical problems – once these are sorted out we will post new maps. Kim is now on her wintering grounds about 3km from last years site. As of last year once she is on the wintering grounds she seems to stay in dense forest and we have received no signals from the tag since the 28th September.

At 1pm on 20th August Kim had left Wales and was located near Church Stretton in Shropshire on the start of her southward migration. This was the first GPS location we had received for many weeks. We feared the satellite tag has stopped working but in fact the lack of signals was presumably due to a paucity of sunlight and her spending most of her time under the canopy. Kim’s departure is eight days earlier than last year and confirms suspicions that she has been unsuccessful in any nesting attempt she may have made this year. Wider wanderings in late May and early June, when she should have been settled, point to her having difficulties finding a mate. At several sites in Wales this year males failed to return including our other satellite tagged bird Mel who almost certainly perished in his winter quarters (our last confirmed position was on 14th February). Plans to tag two more birds this year were forced to be put on hold.

Kim’s autumn migration so far has been rapid. She left Kent on the morning of 25th August, crossed into Spain on the evening of 29th August and arrived in North Africa on the evening of 1st September. On the night of 3rd September she was on the border of Morocco and Algeria poised for another assault of the vast and inhospitable Sahara Desert.

We will upload a more detailed route-map and migration chart soon.

With apologies for the lack of news. We are getting occasional hits from Kim and she is still around her breeding site but the tag has had no battery power recently. This is either through a malfunction or because she is spending all of her time in shade.

We have visited the site and a pair of birds have been seen but there is no evidence of breeding at this stage.

All very frustrating – we will post updates if we learn anything new.

Our female honey buzzard is still being located regularly around her breeding site. We are waiting for information as to whether she has laid eggs. There are still no signals from the male bird and he has not been seen back at his nest site so we must unfortunately presume he is lost.

Further updates will be posted but will be rather spasmodic as we’re out in the field a lot at the moment.

Kim made use of the good weather at the weekend and is now back at her nest site in North Wales having flown up from Northern France in 3 days.

Still no news of Mel, but we’re monitoring his old nest site to see if he turns up.

New maps will be posted as soon as possible

As of 21st May Kim has only moved a few hundred miles North and appears to be taking it easy through France. If she continues at this rate she should cross back into Britain over the weekend.

Kim crossed into Europe via the Straits of Gibralter on the morning of 16th May having spent a day in the mountains in NE Morocco. She then sped through Spain in two days and by Monday morning – 18th May – she had safely negotiated the Pyrenees and was starting to head up through France.

We are waiting for some updates to software, then hope to be able to post new .kml files for people to download as soon as possible.