Photographing Kingfishers: A day to relax

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Ай бұрын

So with just a few days to go before heading to Wales for five days of wildlife photography, I thought I'd take a break and head out to Mike Dunlevy's Kingfisher hide.
I have been working flat out with various projects, weddings, family photos, corporate events, etc. I just needed to take a break and head out to photograph some wildlife for seven therapeutic relaxation before I get organised for my trip to Wales.
I made a visit to Mike's hide last year to photograph the kingfishers a bit earlier in the season when there were a couple of juveniles around however as it's later in the year the juveniles have now fledged it is just the male and female adults coming in to take fish.
The kingfishers didn't disappoint and came in at least a dozen times both male and female kingfishers came in, landing on the perch diving for fish and going off downriver.
It wasn't till the end of the day when I was debating whether or not I should stay or go, then it all came together, and both the male and female kingfishers came in flew from perch to perch landed on the same perch dove in and took some fish, providing me with some great opportunities to get some fantastic images and video of these wonderful birds.
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Пікірлер: 30

@ianbrown704 19 күн бұрын

Another great video Ashley. Brilliant images, love these videos. Cheers

@carlos1982 28 күн бұрын

Great hide was in there last year. Well worth a visit

@joanhuggett5164 Ай бұрын

Your choice of relaxation is a win win situation, for you and us. Thanks so much, Ashley. Loved the story of the kingfisher chicks queuing in the nest. Never heard of this before.

@xinqiwang3301 27 күн бұрын

Totally educational & enjoyable ❤❤

@WildernessWhispers13 Ай бұрын

Congrats to these amazing captures and videos of that beautiful kingfisher 💙🧡🩵🤩

@alanfearn1101 Ай бұрын

Absolutely great Ashley, you inspire me so much, beautiful pictures and videos

@JohnDoe1999-lg7mh 20 күн бұрын

Very nice. Where I live, we only have the Belted Kingfisher. They are very skittish. The juvis are a bit more tolerant. Would love to get them diving, but my reflexes are just not good enough. Ours are as colorful, but still a beautiful bird. Would love to have a place to have a hide, but around here they are along public parks. I do what I can with what I am given. Have been watching then for years and this years brood seems to be very lazy. I did manage a few nice images of a juvi with a crayfish. Striving and getting the images is part of the fun.

@shauncraffey3580 Ай бұрын

Great vid Ashley as usual I don’t know nothing about photography but love the king fisher and the videos thanks and look forward to the next in wales 👍

@kapilkantoo Ай бұрын

Perfect timming capture video and images. Awesome work.

@chrismc2090 Ай бұрын

Great video Ashley, can't beat some good Kingfisher action 👋

@lukewestwood Ай бұрын

Your photo at 9:52 is absolutely stunning. The crisp sharpress of the image and capturing both the bird and the water looks incredible

@WildlifePhotographerUK Ай бұрын

Cheers Luke many thanks for the comment, the image was taken on the R6 with the 24-105 RF lens, at f4, 1/2000 sec, ISO-2500 at a focal length of 50mm , yeh itcame out ok, many thanks.

@user-db5gu1ou8g Ай бұрын

great video and great shots

@RichardCookphotography Ай бұрын

Great video and some fab shots. Well done👍

@keithgrafton5006 Ай бұрын

Excellent pics Ashley.

@WCIN Ай бұрын

Awesome video

@andywhiteside16 Ай бұрын

You say not the best shot I beg to differ its a fantastic shot.

@WildlifePhotographerUK Ай бұрын

Cheers Andy 😉👍

@robertvantzelfde3162 Ай бұрын

The Set up looks like a studio

@paulmills8472 Ай бұрын

Hello Ashley. Great photos as always. Can you tell us what focal length you had your 24-105mm set at please?

@WildlifePhotographerUK Ай бұрын

HI Paul it was set to around 58mm 👍

@alunlambert7456 29 күн бұрын

Great vlog, as always, how do you find the Canon EF 2x III Extender with the 100-500

@WildlifePhotographerUK 29 күн бұрын

@@alunlambert7456 hi Alun, many thanks for your comment, don't tend to use any of the extenders on my 100 to 500. I do have the one times extender, however I do find that it makes the images softer and I only tend to use it for video.

@alunlambert7456 29 күн бұрын

@@WildlifePhotographerUK Thank you for replying, I’m just toying with the idea of going back to Canon and was trying to work out my options for a long focal length but not be paying £10000 plus for the big canon lenses

@FQ8 Ай бұрын

9:50 Great shot but I see an artifact (criss-cross pattern) or am I seeing things?

@JoeMaranophotography Ай бұрын

It's the net. These are paid hides with buckets of fish. Proper birders really kick off over these types of setups. You can see what the setup looks like on Google. That said nearly every amazing wildlife shot you ever saw these days was "faked" or paid for so it is what it is I guess.

@FQ8 Ай бұрын

@@JoeMaranophotography Ahhh...good to know and thanks for the quick reply!

@JoeMaranophotography Ай бұрын

@FQ8 By chance I happened to see the video thumbnail pop up recommended and thought I would see how many angry comments it had. Luckily none lol

@JoeMaranophotography Ай бұрын

@pentagramyt417 I've not done so myself but to be fair there isn't much chance of getting shots like these in the wild because you have no idea where a Kingfisher will dive. I guess they have some value in teaching beginners the basics and such although many people are against them as the Kingfishers can hurt themselves when diving in these setups.