After spending the entire winter in an area of approximately 10km radius, in the south of the Ivory Coast our female Honey Buzzard, Kim, appears to have started her northward migration. On the morning of 19th April she was still in the same area but by 20th April she had moved a few hundred kms to the north of the country. The satellite signals are not good quality so it will be interesting to get the more accurate GPS locations in 3 days time to she exactly where she is.

Mel, the male, has not transmitted a signal since 17th February when he was in dense rain forest in Guinea having returned there from 200kms further south in the Ivory Coast. I should get new data for him tomorrow so hopefully he too may have set off north.

Updates will hopefully be more frequent now that the birds appear to be on the move again.