I missed the March & April blog updates when the River Rea Kingfishers starting pairing up.
Something interesting I noticed, when the weather was cold and less than 3C the birds don't sing at first light very much. Also the Kingfisher to conserve energy I assume would only fly to it's favourite spot and sit and wait, I assume waiting for light and to fish. Then on warmer mornings it would fly further to another favourite spot.
It was good along the CH section to see 2 females turn up. One would sit exactly where the male would stop first thing in the morning. This one looked like an immature female with only a small red colour on it's beak. The other female had a fuller red beak.
March and April Kingfishers were seen at 4 spots along the Rea. CH, LD, KN & WY.
At 2 spots they nested.
At the other 2 I'm not so sure. I can only think not enough fish.
One morning in April I had a surprise when a pair of Kingfisher stopped next to me and the male continued to dig a nest hold whilst the female sat and watched and also checked the hole. I'd seen them at this location for a week but then they disappeared. I assume it was not a good location as too exposed to people and too near the footpath. I then found the calling male back at LD.
