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Decided to put my KFs in the Wild and Free forum this year as I'm hoping it will be image heavy and maybe not just with Kingfishers. That said, this could be the shortest thread ever if it doesn't work out, this is proper wildlife, so who knows? See it as a tales from the riverbank type thread.
I was out on the river last week and also a new location, on private land, that has huge potential, no people and I have permission. All it needs is a Kingfisher on it, I'm hopeful, as it's early days yet and it's a fair way up that river. I have found a Badger set already though, so I'm hoping to investigate that later in the year, we'll see.
I returned to 'my' patch (from the last few years) yesterday though, and where the bulk of my Kingfisher images came from last year. There were no KFs there last week, but within a few minutes yesterday, I saw the tell tale blue arrow bombing down river, away from me, after flying straight past me. The rush I get from this is nuts, I immediately felt happier with life. I followed a tree line, keeping it between me and the river and then I popped out the other side of it, near to where I'd thought the KF had landed. It had.
Over a 4 hour (ish) period, I saw multiple fly pasts of Kingfishers and I'm sure, 3 different birds over a mile or so stretch. I know for sure, the one in the image below flew up river not long after the image was taken and I heard another KF calling it, which would be the female, so at least 2 birds. The other one I saw about 3/4 mile downriver, so highly likely a different bird altogether.
I was carrying my R7 with the 100-400mkii, it's a great walkabout combo and not all that heavy. I carried it over 4 miles yesterday, no problem. The image below was taken from the opposite river bank, the KF sat there for easily 5+ minutes , blissfully unaware I was there, or very dumb.
Anyway, first one is in the bag, not a wall hanger but it is the first from this year, now to untangle it over the coming months.
(image taken under a Schedule 1 licence issued by NatureScot).
I was out on the river last week and also a new location, on private land, that has huge potential, no people and I have permission. All it needs is a Kingfisher on it, I'm hopeful, as it's early days yet and it's a fair way up that river. I have found a Badger set already though, so I'm hoping to investigate that later in the year, we'll see.
I returned to 'my' patch (from the last few years) yesterday though, and where the bulk of my Kingfisher images came from last year. There were no KFs there last week, but within a few minutes yesterday, I saw the tell tale blue arrow bombing down river, away from me, after flying straight past me. The rush I get from this is nuts, I immediately felt happier with life. I followed a tree line, keeping it between me and the river and then I popped out the other side of it, near to where I'd thought the KF had landed. It had.
Over a 4 hour (ish) period, I saw multiple fly pasts of Kingfishers and I'm sure, 3 different birds over a mile or so stretch. I know for sure, the one in the image below flew up river not long after the image was taken and I heard another KF calling it, which would be the female, so at least 2 birds. The other one I saw about 3/4 mile downriver, so highly likely a different bird altogether.
I was carrying my R7 with the 100-400mkii, it's a great walkabout combo and not all that heavy. I carried it over 4 miles yesterday, no problem. The image below was taken from the opposite river bank, the KF sat there for easily 5+ minutes , blissfully unaware I was there, or very dumb.
Anyway, first one is in the bag, not a wall hanger but it is the first from this year, now to untangle it over the coming months.
(image taken under a Schedule 1 licence issued by NatureScot).
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TFS.
