The Roy Dennis Foundation has provided an update on the progress of the male white-tailed sea eagle since it was seen over Louth and Grimsby over the weekend.
Spotted a few days earlier at Rutland water, it was one of four juveniles white-tailed eagles that were released on the Isle of Wight last summer as part of a re-introduction project overseen by the Roy Dennis Foundation and Forestry England.
All have been transmitter-tagged so that their movements can be tracked, via satellite, and, as expected, they have begun wandering far and wide.
Says Roy Dennis:"After some short local movements, G393 resumed his flight north at 09:30 on Sunday April 5, crossing the Humber from Barton-on-Humber at 10:20.
"An hour later he was perched in a wood north of Beverley.
"From here it seems certain that he caught sight of another of the Isle of Wight birds, G318, who was passing to the west, because the two birds then flew north together for at least the next 17 kilometres.
"While G318 paused in an area of woodland, G393 continued north into the North Yorkshire Moors and eventually settled to roost in an area of woodland in the east of the National Park having flown 123 km."
The data shows that G318 had also headed north on a similar track through Lincolnshire and then settled to roost just 10 km north-west of G393, in a wood between Grimsby and Caistor.
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