At Last!
Finally, after years of trying I've managed some reasonable shots of a kingfisher. I posted a shot a couple of weeks back from the Burton Marsh Covert hide where what was presumably this bird or its mate sat fixed at around 20m range before flying off and vanishing. Yesterday, it put on a real show for that hide commuting between half a dozen perches, some less than 5m from the hide, and catching a couple of sticklebacks.
I'm not totally sure of the gender. In this shot there is clearly orange on the bill saying female, but in the shade the orange is less obvious. On balance, I'd say female.
For this shot she was posing on a projecting reed illuminated by the afternoon winter sun. The background is the out-of-focus sunlit reedbed. Now I need an equally co-operative green woodpecker.
At Last!
Finally, after years of trying I've managed some reasonable shots of a kingfisher. I posted a shot a couple of weeks back from the Burton Marsh Covert hide where what was presumably this bird or its mate sat fixed at around 20m range before flying off and vanishing. Yesterday, it put on a real show for that hide commuting between half a dozen perches, some less than 5m from the hide, and catching a couple of sticklebacks.
I'm not totally sure of the gender. In this shot there is clearly orange on the bill saying female, but in the shade the orange is less obvious. On balance, I'd say female.
For this shot she was posing on a projecting reed illuminated by the afternoon winter sun. The background is the out-of-focus sunlit reedbed. Now I need an equally co-operative green woodpecker.