Saturday 14 November 2015

Kingfisher Country Park

I had not checked out Kingfisher Country Park in Birmingham since the new year when I got this photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/88816303@N08/15542729444/ I thought in the wind and rain I might not be lucky. I ran along the path having a look at the river and could not see a Kingfisher. I then remembered I had seen one on a tree perch over the river just after the bridge. So I crossed the road bridge and looked over the wall to the river and just saw a kingfisher splash in the river and return to the tree perch. Yes it had caught a fish! It then knocked it on the branch a few times before swallowing it. It then flew closer to me on another tree perch over the river. I then turned my head and it saw me move and it flew off, up the river. I then looked over the bridge, down the river and much to my amazement, there was another kingfisher in another tree over the river diving for fish. It was really difficult to see. So I approached the tree and then heard the kingfisher call as it flew off. Amazing in all the wind and rain. I wonder if one of them was this one; https://www.flickr.com/photos/88816303@N08/17531770440/ In the morning there was the usual kingfisher on the River Rea in this spot; https://www.flickr.com/photos/88816303@N08/15688732673/ Then there was another kingfisher on the Bourn Brook in this spot; https://www.flickr.com/photos/88816303@N08/15900961407/ Though it was not obvious to see in the poor light and flew out from a bush when I looked closer. It was a pretty good Saturday. Amazed to find four kingfisher! Great!