The establishing population continued to grow. Eight territorial pairs were located, 7 of these laying eggs. One female died on the nest from ingesting rats which had been poisoned with Bromadiolone. Sadly this bird, a first time breeder paired to a locally bred male, had two eggs beneath her. This is the first known death of a kite through rodenticide poisoning in Central Scotland.

The single egg of another pair failed to hatch.

The remaining five pairs reared 10 young, double last years figure. Another locally bred male, the brother of the bird mentioned above, fathered two young with a four year old female. Another bonus was the re-discovery of a pair which bred in 1998 but were not known to have nested last year. This pair had moved several miles to a new territory.

There are currently around 60 in the Central Scotland population including several locally-bred birds and individuals from the North Scotland population.