What a week this has been for Alcedo Atthis. Many readers will know of my predilection with these small, skittish and utterly charming birds. One of my theories in getting close enough to photograph them is to use a boat especially on waters where the birds are used to boats. The River Bure must at […]
What better way to start Boxing Day than sighting a Kingfisher
Yesterday I took it easy. I did not go out photographing as is my want most days. Instead I got stuck into setting the fire, peeling the spuds, roasting the beef, pulling the cork, devouring the beef and roasted vegetables and quaffing an extremely good Cos ’98. Top all that much later on with a […]
I heard the news ….. Oh Boy
Last night there was a snippet of news on the BBC about Constable’s painting, ‘The Mill Stream’ having undergone restoration and conservation work. I was very lucky to have worked with Emma Roodhouse, Curator of Art at Ipswich and Colchester Museum Service as part of an internship between my second and third years at University. […]
A thing of beauty
The Taylor Wessing 2014 catalogue dropped through my letterbox on Saturday. In it, there is an article on Beauty written by Eamonn McCabe. It is a well written article and I believe I have seen some of the images before at one of Eamonn’s talks. I had certainly heard the stories before in small group […]
Today I saw the Princes Street Kingfisher
It has been weeks now since I sighted the regular Kingfisher near the Princes Street Bridge on the Gipping. I had wondered whether it had moved to open waters and a saltier environment rather than this mixed tidal and freshwater section. These delightful small predators raise my vibrations no matter what else is going on […]
Zen and the art of Kingfisher photography
Some of my regular followers will have seen a spate of posts this week regarding my pursuance of Kingfishers. I deliberately did not post any information about my whereabouts but now we are home I can reveal that I was on location in Mylor Churchtown, Cornwall. In all I spent 19.5 hours driving there […]
Seven times she teased me this morning
Different tactics today. I was out before sunrise and within 10 minutes she arrived screaming in low over the water almost like the avian equivalent of a Red Arrows jet then she pulled up and turned to port then starboard and settled on the headline of a trawler behind me then quick as a flash […]
Elusive female keeps me waiting two hours
I was up before dawn this morning to try and prove my theory of repetitive perches used by territorial Kingfishers. Yesterday I had observed a female and this morning with the tide being that much later I got in position about 2 hours before high water. Was the light dire or what? I sheltered from […]