News is coming in that a satellite-tagged red kite from Northern Scotland has been found dead in Ayrshire. Lab tests done by SASA have reportedly shown that this young bird was poisoned by an illegal pesticide.
We are led to believe this kite was discovered in September. If this turns out to be an accurate report, questions need to be asked about the delayed reporting.
More on this when details have been confirmed…
UPDATE: this has now been confirmed (see here)
Raptor Persecution UK 
As you say “if this report turns out to be accurate…”…and the illegal pesticide is a deadly carbamate poison….which it usually is…why is it that the public are never informed about a clear risk to human health [ I long ago gave up trying to speed up inquiries due to the clear risk to other wildlife…no one seemed to give a damn]?..
Some sad day a human life will be lost due to one of these criminal acts…and suddenly it will be a case of..”why werent we told?…why did everyone wait so long to investigate/report/publicise?..” and the sound of slammed stable doors will resound through the Land…
In a world of increasing Health and Safety fanaticism…how come this obvious scenario is consistently ignored?
By the way this will not be the first Red Kite poisoned in Ayrshire…if, of course it was….