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Those of you who know me here by now will know all about my passion for kingfishers. I've spent quite a lot of time over this last year or so trying to photograph my local ones, all within a few miles of home. I even went to the extent of getting Schedule 1 licenced at a nest site for this season. That pair have fledged a brood last week and are now moving onto their 2nd brood. Ironically, I never manged to photograph them properly, they kicked my butt, as did the site. I got images of them but nothing I'd show off, those images will be mainly for my licence returns when the time comes.
I had been aware of another nest though, (the adjoining territory to my licenced site) but couldn't visit it as a licence only covers you at one site. Long story short, I watched the river away from the nest site but still within the probable territory. I managed to pin down a frequently used perch and I've seen the kingfishers use it on 4 occasions. I've been sat at this perch now for the last 3 afternoons and evenings and tonight, I got my 15 seconds with the male.
No bait used and the perch had been lying in the river for weeks, placed there by the river
Canon M5, Sigma 150-600C.
Happy days.
Kingfisher. by Dale, on Flickr
I had been aware of another nest though, (the adjoining territory to my licenced site) but couldn't visit it as a licence only covers you at one site. Long story short, I watched the river away from the nest site but still within the probable territory. I managed to pin down a frequently used perch and I've seen the kingfishers use it on 4 occasions. I've been sat at this perch now for the last 3 afternoons and evenings and tonight, I got my 15 seconds with the male.
No bait used and the perch had been lying in the river for weeks, placed there by the river
Canon M5, Sigma 150-600C.
Happy days.
Kingfisher. by Dale, on Flickr
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