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After a neighbour informed me on Sunday she had spotted a Kingfisher whilst out with her dog, I decided to check it out briefly that evening, about 15min in total. In that time I had four sightings. On the third sighting it had stopped on a small root which was sticking out of a 6ft diameter main root of a fallen tree. After a brief rest it then jumped up inside of a crevice within the root, great I thought. With kit packed food and flasks I headed off about 7.30 this morning. Not wanting to go anywhere near what was a potential nest site I stayed about 100 yards or so up stream of it. After walking up and down that stretch a couple of times, I chose my spot near some probable perches. One was a small piece of rock jetting out from the bank, that was about 18ft or so away. I strung the camouflage netting around three sturdy saplings which were growing halfway down the small bank to the waters edge, they were spread out in almost a wigwam fashion which gave me almost 360 cover from the water. A fourth sapling growing there and was nearly in the middle, this was handy as it gave me somewhere to sit between Ouch!! :nuts: Just in front of me about 8ft away was a fallen branch about 7 inches diameter and about a foot below my eye level, this spanned the whole width of the stream, this now gave me two possible chances of a decent shot. After setting up the camera and nestling down in amongst the wild garlic, I proceeded to munch on a cheese sandwich and wait, and wait, and wait. The sun is shining, trout were jumping, I must have took about 50 shots just checking different settings and passing the time, occasionally I would just lean my head back, just enough so as to see if anything was heading up or down stream. Its now 17.00 hours and I have lost the feeling completely fom my groin down, almost feels as if that sapling had been growing from my body for years not a Kingfisher in sight :shake::shake: So its time to pack up and head home
It dawned on me after that maybe the water which was not a torrent but probably a bit more murky than usual was the cause, and that they had gone further downstream to a clearer spot. I think I have failed in my first field craft test i should have noted the water quality earlier :amstupid::amstupid: oh well back there again soon, heres the one that got away.
It dawned on me after that maybe the water which was not a torrent but probably a bit more murky than usual was the cause, and that they had gone further downstream to a clearer spot. I think I have failed in my first field craft test i should have noted the water quality earlier :amstupid::amstupid: oh well back there again soon, heres the one that got away.
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