Garth Peacock
A week of mixed fortunes

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Friday 4th October - North Norfolk

Monday 7th October 2024

Tanzania Day 8 - The Serengeti

Saturday 5th October 2024

Two trips out with little to show.

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Tanzania Day 7 - The Serengeti

Monday 23rd September 2024

Abberton Reservoir - again

Thursday 19th September 2024

Abberton Essex

Wednesday 11th September 2024

A morning at Grafham Water

Thursday 29th August 2024

After holiday blues

Thursday 22nd August 2024

Trying out a new lens

Monday 5th August 2024

Tanzania Day 5 - Ngorogoro Crater

Saturday 27th July 2024

Kevin Robson's Tawny Owl hide

Thursday 25th July 2024

Local stuff

Saturday 20th July 2024

More local stuff

Saturday 29th June 2024

Catching up with a local rarity

Friday 14th June 2024

Tanzania - Day 1 - Arusha

Monday 13th May 2024

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Tuesday 1st October 2019

Most of my usual local haunts have either dried out, or have very low water levels, due to the dry weather in this part of the world. Not an easy time for wildlife photography.

The WWT reserve at Welney still has reasonable water levels so, on Monday, I headed in that direction. After spending a good part of the day there, I returned home with nothing worth keeping.

So, on Friday, I visited the SWT reserve at Lackford Lakes, renowned for it's Kingfishers. Arriving just after 9.00am, there was nothing from the double decker hide so I went to reed hide to find it very busy with mainly photogrpahers waiting for a Kingfisher to appear. Finding a seat, it was not too long before one arrived but just sat on a perch, doing very little except look pretty.

After that bird moved on, it was a case of filling in with other subjects on the small lagoon in front of the hide. First a female Teal bathing,

and then a fishing Grey Heron with a very nice reflection.

After several more visits from the Kingfisher population, I finally managed one that caught something - I think it is a Water Boatman, firstly bashing it against the perch to kill it

before eating it.

It then started to rain, with a somewhat wet Kingfisher

before the action stopped and I moved on but with nothing else of interest, it was home time.