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.

Kim has managed to safely cross one of the world’s most hostile environments in a little under a week. Amazingly she has covered just over 2000 km in 6 days and is now over half way back on her return journey to her nest-site in North Wales.

Kim safely crosses the Sahara Desert in 6 days

On the evening of 6th May Kim had reached the southern edge of the Sahara Desert on her northward migration back to Wales after completing a journey of over 400km during the day. She is already over 1000km North of where she wintered in the Ivory Coast. This is the first time a British Honey Buzzard has been satellite tracked on its northward migration and so far there are no great surprises as she is broadly retracing her southward journey last autumn.

We have still not had any signals from Mel and will soon have to accept that either the tag has stopped working or that he has not survived the winter. He should be well on his way home now so it cannot simply be that he keeping his tag in the shade in some Guinean rainforest.

Kim starts her northward journey home to Wales