You Sir are such an Ambassador for wild life photography. Thank you for your inspiration.

We just love your instructional videos. They are very informative, a pleasure to watch, and the photography is amazing. We enjoy your teaching style and personality. Thank you!

Mike, thank you very much for this guide on Kingfishers! It makes me really excited to go out and shoot now. I laughed out loud and applauded your humorous shots at the end. Thank you very sharing those!

Fantastic content Mike. You’re information is superb quality, and the images you presented were enough to make me green with envy! Thanks very much for your time.

Thank you so much for this helpful video, Mike! SO interesting to see how you are able to attract the kingfishers and capture them this beautifully.

A gem of a video and such light - delicate and beautiful creatures they are. Thanks for producing and happy shooting Mike 👍

Really enjoyable and informative. I like the idea of a floating tray. I hadn’t thought of that one. Some imaginative shot too. Fantastic little birds. Thanks for posting.

5:19 has to be my favourite. The colour contrasts and patterns on that branch make for a stunning image

ABSOLUTELY magnificent!! Thank you.

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

Excellant video love the use of the floating fish tank, fantastic shots, love the various props and a great selection of branches

Really cool and pure beauties thanks for sharing !

Hi Mike. Only just recently found you on KZfaq. I'm a keen bird photographer. Your vlogs are fantastic. Wish I had your knowledge and photography skills. Can't wait for the next vlog.👍.

Good job! Great shots!!!

Great footage and photographs. Super ideas. Thanks. Great work.

I love that picture with the big fish! It really made me laugh. I wonder what the bird was thinking.

I just want to say I really appreciate your videos. I enjoy your no nonsense, practical (keep it simple) approach, most likely due to you doing it as a professional for years. I'm a Kiwi who is moving to the UK next year. Our Kingfisher is quite a different bird and very flighty in this country. During the winter they live mostly on coastal estuaries. I would love to see a video one day on how you set up for diving shots one day please.

Wow some brilliant pictures there.and great info thanks for the vid Mike

Very beautiful 😍

Great movie 👍 and beautiful shots 👍📷

Excellent tips! Enjoyed the video and your photos very much!

Another excellent video. Much appreciated.

Thanks for this great video Mike

Excellent advice, great video. Many thanks for sharing.

Great video Mike, lovely images, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Cracking video with awesome images. Thank you for sharing.

Very nice video, beautiful photos

Really lovely images. And fantastic technique.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and your superb images Mike! I really appreciate your work.

Brilliant! Some great ideas here. Might buy me a kids' fishing net tomorrow. I know a great spot to set something similar to this up.

This was brilliant Mike. Great tips!

Fantastic tutorial video... !! 👍 Thanks for sharing..

Absolutely fantastic Mike, such sharp crisp images - I'm just getting started in photography, this is so inspiring!

Amazing

Thanks so much for this video. Amazing stuff!

Another enjoyable and informative video Mike. Keep them coming please .

Awesome Mike, thank you for the idea

Brilliant video Mike,i didnt realise that Kingfishers would dive into such shallow water.

Incredible, thank you!

Congrats for your channel! Amazing job!

Thank you Sir. I have just started my journy into bird photography, these video's of yours are a wealth of knowledge & inspiration for anyone wishing to do as I. Subscribed.

I'm trying to catch a BluJay that knows me for peanuts, will work on it, you have inspired me, BRAVO!

Wow stunning.. I need to find a spot and a perch and practise my photography 👍 superb shots Mike so inspiring

Great video and splendid tips! Cheers

Hi Mike. This video is spot on. In my part of Norway, I know of one kingfisher. They are rare in Norway. The bird lives in a river close to home, and I wil try this setup. Best Torgeir Kaarbø

Very informative and great video. Thanks for sharing this with us!!! Greetings, Rolf

Incredibly good photos! You must have a lot of patience and perseverance.

Absolutely stunning images, I have loads of perch shots but so far never managed to get a tack sharp in flight coming out of water etc. Thanks for this vlog.

Thank you for your great advices, this is my next challange. 😃

Really great vid, thanks for share it!

Klasse gemacht gefällt mir außerordentlich gut habe vor kurzem auch das Vergnügen mit einem Kingfisher gehabt MFG Peter Preis best Regards from Germany

always interesting video's! keep 'm coming! :)

The floating pool for the fish, is that just a wooden frame with mesh? Genius! Off to the workshop!

Waiting on the diving kingfisher vid! Love your content!

Maestro. GRAZIE.

Nice info 👌 thanks

Great video and stunning images Mike. I think you managed to get a wide variety of shots using various branches etc. You made me chuckle when you said 60fps isn't enough!

Really nice Video, thank you very much!

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6:00 - that silhouette backlight shot!

Great video Mike good info. I’m new to this and am using a Tamron 18-400 f3.5 - 6.3 lens. Struggling to find sweet spot on it for best sharpest photos. But happy so far

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brilliant! Thanks Mike :-)

Caramba, qué maravilla. Felicitaciones! :)

Excellent

Great images mike

So!, I have spent a good part of my life watching your videos, you have taught me many things, so maybe its time to grasp my EM1X and the 300mm f4 and just go out and shoot, cheers!

Artificial shallow container is dangerous for the kingfisher! He might misjudge the depth of water and hit the bottom.

Great stuff - those shots near the end of your video are amazing. What shutter speed did you use to capture the bird landing on the perch and coming up with a fish?

love this as well, please please do the diving video

Thank you this was epic

found your video tips very informative. I have been watching kingfishers myself during the lockdown and filming them though not to the standard of yours. In my defence though its a fast flowing upland river flanked by trees both sides (river Taff. just starting to get to know her movements now and fave perches. What will happen though when the water levels rise with winter I have no idea

very nice!!!

Lot work got into to kig video, yet to Photograph Wildlife

Op in the chaitt

How do I photograph a kingifsher in flight just after launch, there's problem taking pictures with Nikon d500, when put on 3d focus tracking it doesn't give the 9fps when it's time for execution but only gives 3 or 4 fps

Nice video

Hi Mike, thank you for a very informative and interesting video. I noticed in one of your Kingfisher videos, you suggested an aperture of f11 so that all the bird is in focus. I think that was on a micro 4/3 sensor. What aperture would you suggest on a canon full frame sensor? Can you still get good background separation with such a small aperture?

Wow, this is great photography of Kingfishers! Great tips and information about how to photograph them. Thank you, this is the kind of information I have been looking for, for a long time. I was however flabbergasted about 21 seconds or so into the video when you stated that to photograph a Kingfisher close to it's nest you need to buy a license. To be forced to pay a fee to the government to photograph a bird if it's within a certain distance from it's nest??? I mean that's horrible to even imagine that being acceptable... I'm in Texas, USA and that kind of governmental intrusion would be unthinkable, at least for now anyway (there are a lot of crazies who would love to enslave us to such onerous regulations but we keep them beat back). I hope you all can take back your country over there and purge the loonies from your government!

Can you pease join to a video if you made it about using pro capture feature with the new bird detect af firmware on em1x? how do you set your camera up?

nice...

Cant believe you have dislikes on this video! well done Sir great stuff

This is great content ! Mike about how deep should the floating wood box be would you say? Trying to get shots of native belted kingfishers here in New York.... much appreciated thanks

How legal is it to use live animals to bait wild animals for photography, I wonder?

Excellent, the second one was not nessecery, all the info was in here. If you want to make the diving video, I would be very happy to come and help you shoot the video with you so you can concentrate in the content whilst I manage the video cameras. Just drop me a message via any of my social media.

Dear Mr Lane, please could you informações the materials used and the measures of the floating fish tank ? Thank you very much, Ricardo Leser

Hi Mike Great video, seems like cheating but it’s not upsetting the birds and wind up with great results I find the kingfishers in New Zealand extremely people shy but I guess with a hide they wouldn’t be upset. I haven’t tried using a hide yet though Thanks Noel

please do you audio in stereo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! , but great film footage

Can you capture kingfishers in Camo without a hide and 600m lens? Have loads near me but hiring a lens to get it. Any tips ?

your photos area amazing. great shots. may i know, what kind of lense did you use for these kingfisher pictures ? thank you ...

Great tips thank you. What shutter speed are you using on the kingfisher 60fps flying up to the perch?

I like the photos but I'm really not a fan of baiting wildlife for photos. Ultimately it puts the wild life in danger becoming more habituated to human behaviour. Also, for me, there's something special about witnessing an animal that is fully in its wild and natural environment and behaving completely in its natural way. Just something I really appreciate when I'm out photographing wild life.

Great images , I just think what you have done is quite staged !

didn't know those pictures were so fake lol