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Trail Facts and Figures
The Galloway Kite Trail was created in 2003 by RSPB Scotland in partnership with Forestry Commission Scotland and Anne Johnstone of Bellymack Hill Farm.
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The funding provided by Making Tracks, (50%), (A post Foot & Mouth Disease recovery grant scheme administered by Dumfries & Galloway Tourist Board); SNH, (25%). The balance of, (25%) was provided by RSPB Scotland, Forestry Commission Scotland, Dumfries & Galloway Raptor Study Group and the participating businesses on the trail.
The trail is an anticlockwise route of some thirty miles around Loch Ken (winter),with an additional ten miles of forest drive, (summer only).
The trail has six outdoor viewing points with interpretation boards; six walks,(including a short path to feeding station); three hides; one feeding station; one visitor centre with CCTV screen, (summer only); seven unique information boards in business premises around Loch Ken; road signs and a red kite sculpture, (Parton).
The trail was launched at Mossdale on 6th October 2003 by Sarah Boyack, Chairman of the Scottish Parliament’s Environment Committee.

The businesses associated with the trail include three hotels, two public houses, one Guesthouse, one Holiday Park and one Holiday Cottage business.
Sarah Boyack opens the Galloway Kite Trail with Chris Rollie (RSPB) and Keven Duffy (Red Kite development officer)
The trail was featured (by Derwent May) in Times Travel Supplement, BBC Landward, Border TV (on numerous occasions), Scottish Bird News, Birdwatching Magazine, Irish Times, Scots magazine, Countryman magazine, BBC Radio Scotland Out of Doors (on various dates).
L toR: Sarah Boyack, Chris Rollie, Keven Duffy
The trail was featured in a Nature Based Tourism seminar at Symington, Lanarkshire, in February 2003.
Over one thousand people had visited the Galloway Kite Trail by Christmas 2003!
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