Friday 4 December 2015

Four Birmingham Kingfisher

I've now got a route that takes in four regular Birmingham kingfisher. The first is on the Bourn Brook, it's an adult male. This is where a juvenile female wintered last year. What is good about this years is, I never know where it's going to appear from. It seems to like a number of perches. Sometimes first thing in the morning with a small amount of light I can just see it fly past. The next is on the River Rea, I'm hopeful it's the juvenile female from the Bourn Brook. Though it could be another male, as there was one here over the summer and then another passed through which spooked the female and had to be chased off by the male. Last year an adult female wintered on this section. The next kingfisher spot is the River Cole at Small Heath/Kingfisher Country Park. Again there was also a male kingfisher here last winter. What has made this winter sighting interesting, is that I have found a pair a couple times. One time they were happily fishing either side of a bridge, another time they where sat together and then they were chasing and calling each other. The fourth kingfisher is again on the River Cole but this time at Yardley Wood/Trittiford. Late winter of 2013 there was a kingfisher further along this section at Sarehole with another further down at Sparkhill. They then moved up to Hall Green over the summer of 2014, where they had a nest and chick. I have checked along Sarehole but not get lucky this winter. I'm looking forward to the holidays to get some more time and check the fifth (or sixth) kingfisher on the Bourn, just down the road from me. I've seen it reported recently. Got to find it again!!

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