Confirmation please... blackwit? (9 Viewers)

[James Armstrong]

Hi Woody,

Nice photo! Are you still using the second hand camera (Canon?) you had at the BF Elmley Bash? If so it's really proved a bargain and you've really got the hang of this digiscoping business! BTW I understand your reservations about your id. question - the amount of expertise on the forum these days is a bit daunting but as the responses to your thread have shown the non-elitist and amazingly helpful BF ethos still prevails! I'm looking forward to seeing some id shots of a blackwit and a barwit side by side with the correct size fonts superimposed on their legs showing the difference...

 

[Woody]

James, nice to hear from you. I'm still using the ebay camera, (it's a nikon cp990 btw) and I hope to get to grips with the digiscoping thing one day but I think I need a better scope. The only problem is I'd have to sell one of the kids to pay for it!

As for the comparison shot I'll see what I can do!

Woody

 

[Ruby]

Hi Woody,

Did you go down to Oare this weekend?? - seem to recall you saying that you went quite often on a Sunday.

I was thinking of going myself, but chores got the better of me :C


All the best.... Ruby

 

[Woody]

Hi Ruby, no I didn't get to Oare - My mate and I went to Hucking estate instead in the hope of photographing some nuthatches but they didn't show so it's either Elmley or Oare next sunday.

I was there the week before though and saw a kingfisher in possibly exactly the same place as your photo. Sadly he didn't hang about but the quest is still on!

Woody

 

[Ruby]

Hi Woody,

Good luck with your expedition next week - both very nice places aren't they....

I'm off to Dorset next weekend myself, which will be great, but maybe slightly frustrating.... We're staying in a nice country cottage in prime birding territory but the other people that I'm going with aren't that interested in birds.... We'll probably do a few walks where I'm lagging several hundred yards behind, trying to identify that mysterious wader through my BINs!!

As regards the Oare KF.... Go through the first gate on your left that leads to the little old hide.... KF was perched on the first fence overlooking the flooded ditch.
Dopey me didn't see him until it was too late, but he only flew as far as the 2nd fence, where the photo was taken. Seen KF there quite a few times, so maybe it's a bit of a favoured spot....

The other place that I've seen one perched is on the posts down to the left of the boat slipway....