Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis
Canon 800mm f8 for 1/320th @ iso400
A kingfisher on one of the lakes at Moore Nature Reserve near Warrington. A sizeable reserve with several large lakes, Kingfishers can be seen flitting about on most of the lakes at most times during the year. They tend to catch predominantly sticklebacks, an ongoing discussion with the warden and the fish stocks in the lakes. Compared with the levels of diving birds up on Appleton reservoir which is a fishery and is well stocked with varying sizes of fish, the lakes at Moore always seem depleted of diving type birds.
Although the lakes at Moore do have some huge carp which can be seen during the spawning season there seems to be a lack of medium to small sixed fish which f available must surely increase the numbers of birds on the lakes and so on...… the Kingfishers seem to eek out a living on Sticklebacks.
A kingfisher on one of the lakes at Moore Nature Reserve near Warrington. A sizeable reserve with several large lakes, Kingfishers can be seen flitting about on most of the lakes at most times during the year. They tend to catch predominantly sticklebacks, an ongoing discussion with the warden and the fish stocks in the lakes. Compared with the levels of diving birds up on Appleton reservoir which is a fishery and is well stocked with varying sizes of fish, the lakes at Moore always seem depleted of diving type birds.
Although the lakes at Moore do have some huge carp which can be seen during the spawning season there seems to be a lack of medium to small sixed fish which f available must surely increase the numbers of birds on the lakes and so on...… the Kingfishers seem to eek out a living on Sticklebacks.