20231020 (10)_Blue-cheeked_Bee-eater
One of my old non-digital pictures rephotographed. This Blue-cheeked Bee-eater turned up on an amazing weekend: I heard about it while ticking Great Spotted Cuckoo at Dungeness and nailed it in the aftermath of a torrential downpour the following morning. It was relocated on this fence behind a caravan site and I have a vivid memory of the crowd's feet drumming on the short turf before everyone burst through a hedge to find a wide deep rain-filled ditch to be jumped to reach viewing places on the far side: not all made it, with one well known twitcher ending up standing up to his waist in cold water with his valuable telescope held above his head for safety.
20231020 (10)_Blue-cheeked_Bee-eater
One of my old non-digital pictures rephotographed. This Blue-cheeked Bee-eater turned up on an amazing weekend: I heard about it while ticking Great Spotted Cuckoo at Dungeness and nailed it in the aftermath of a torrential downpour the following morning. It was relocated on this fence behind a caravan site and I have a vivid memory of the crowd's feet drumming on the short turf before everyone burst through a hedge to find a wide deep rain-filled ditch to be jumped to reach viewing places on the far side: not all made it, with one well known twitcher ending up standing up to his waist in cold water with his valuable telescope held above his head for safety.