In a development akin to the pontiff discovering his gaff has a ballustraded platform on the upper floor, The Outside Loo can report avian activity on the new artificial perch at the river. However, the more alert amongst you will notice that it is not a kingfisher.
I did manage to film one of the birds earlier in the year. The film below is from April, when there was much less foliage on the willows and the birds were easier to view. Even so, this is still quite a distant shot. The bird's call can be heard quite clearly all the same.
However, having spent many fruitless hours hiding under camouflage netting on the riverbank since, it became apparent that I wasn't going to get the photograph that I want. The kingfishers did not use the new branch once. I concluded that either I wasn't as hidden as well as I had supposed, or that the branch wasn't useful to these birds. It simply isn't on their normal flightpath, for instance.
Defeated, I retreated deeper into the undergrowth, further away from the bankside and in a less favourable position for taking photographs. Almost immediately both birds appeared, calling loudly to each other and perching just yards away, but out of range of my camera. I must have been correct to seek a better hiding place. I didn't want to consider that if I had remained where I was I would have got the shot.
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