This month's ringing demo at Beeston turned out to be a corker! We caught nearly 60 birds - about three times as many as we've had in recent months - and two of them were juvenile Kingfishers. Most of the rest were juvenile Great Tits, with a scattering of Whitethroats, Blue Tits, Dunnocks, Greenfinches, Blackbirds, Chaffinches and Robins.
Everyone say: oooooh!
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| The first of two Kingfishers we caught today |
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| Maybe the back view is even better |
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| 'Oh - you mean I can go now?' |
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| 'I'm outta here - but I'll crap on your hand first. Byee!' |
How lovely to get that close to such a jewel of a bird.
ReplyDeleteThat is pretty special Katie.
ReplyDeleteThat is just stunning. Been having a lot of close encounters with my local kingfisher these lastfew weeks but nowhere near THAT close!.
ReplyDeleteWow what a nice thing to do... And kingfisher are so beautiful! I guess it is something really special to handle this beautiful bird! Thanks for sharing this with us!
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the pics! They're awesome birds... so awesome that I actually *ran* to the net to extract them :o)
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