Look who came home for Christmas

After last month's winter movements blog, the kites have surprised us all again with another set of exciting movements across Scotland.  07 Phoenix returned from Nethy Bridge to Aberdeen for a couple of days, before heading off once again and at the moment we are not sure to where.  The Kingswells Bullet 27 has also been on the move again, and came back to Aberdeen in time for Christmas. 
 
So now in late-January, while the rest of us are fighting off the festive flab, the kites are continuing their winter routine of searching for worms and invertebrates combined with scavenging from the local pheasant shoot.  They seem to manage to scare off the local crows and buzzards to find enough to eat, and even fed well during the snow we had last week.
 
As the days begin to get longer myself and the other kite trackers continue to listen on the radio for our birds and the other Scottish missing kites.  Who knows who'll turn up in Aberdeen and which kites will head off from here.