Birmingham Kingfisher round up 17th/18th/19th November

A bumper weekend of Birmingham Kingfisher sightings;
1) Bittell Reservoir, it was perched on a tree by the res next to the canal. It called and flew up and around to head to the canal.
2) River Rea, Wychall Lane, it flew from under the bridge up the river.
3) On the in flow channel to Trittiford. Almost in the dark, it was there when I went past and still there when I came back.
4) The Bourn Brook walkway. I had not seen one here for a few weeks. I had given up as the rain had made the water brown, but there it was in the valley of the brook. It gave a few calls but not a full call. Maybe it was a juvenile. 
5) From the Dogpool Lane bridge over the River Rea I could see a Kingfisher in the distance dive into the River. Then it flew under the bridge. I later found it by Selly Park with another Kingfisher. They were a couple hundred metres apart. One was in a tree I remembered I had seen one in once before next to the concrete footbridge.
6) The regular by the Dental Hospital. Again the water was brown but the Kingfisher flew past calling.
7) I went out for an early morning run to see the Goosander on the Valley Parkway boating pond. I kept running to check out the Bourn. Much to my surprise the Kingfisher was on the Bourn in Bournville Park. It flew from it's perch and gave a call.
8) On the same run, I ran to Manor Farm Park, there were no Goosander but there was a Kingfisher on Merritt's Brook by the trees where the two brooks join before the lake.
9) I always take a look at the River Tame under Spaghetti Junction. For the first time in a long time there was no Kingfisher. So I walked up the River Tame along the edge of Aston Reservoir. After the Reservoir, there in the distance was a Kingfisher flying from the bank. I'd seen a Kingfisher here once before a few years back. Great to see one again!

Birmingham Kingfisher news

Birmingham Kingfisher round up for the past couple months;
1) Birmingham Dental Hospital Kingfisher on the Bourn Brook
2) QE Island, Bourn Brook, Kingfisher
3) Woodgate Valley, Bourn Brook, Kingfisher
4) River Rea, Selly Park, Kingfisher
5) River Rea, Wychall Lane, Kingfisher
6) Trittiford Mill pond, River Cole, Kingfisher
7) Bittell Reservoir Kingfisher