kingfisher

At Marazion whilst photographing the pectoral sandpiper, this kingfisher showed distant but well. it was nice to see the kingfisher as the last winter was exceptionally cold and kingfisher numbers can suffer in cold winters as frozen waters prevent them from feeding.

Kingfisher

The Kingfisher pictures were taken at Slimbridge from the Kingfisher hide, the first and the last picture was taken by the Father in Law, Alan .These birds where particularly difficult to photograph as the distance to the subject was to great, the hide had a tendency to shake with the amount of people viewing ,and the speed of flight.My favourite is the first where the Kingfisher has come up out of the water and created a blue haze around itself with the spray .