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We saw How Many!!!!!!!!!!
I warn you in advance if you don't like Kingfishers, then you'll hate this. We popped down to the local boat ramp to see if anything was going on when we spotted a Kingfisher. I must mention (no excuses) I was shooting into a dark area with lots of foliage,hand held on full zoom. I know lots of you would have been able to handle this situation, but given what happened you may understand my disbelief and excitement. Ummm nothing new about Kingfishers you're thinking ............. except....................
One solitary juvenile King fisher we thought.
Couldn't believe it when another one joined.Then there was 2.
Now this is getting silly - 3 at once.
How could we ask for more? Well we did and now have 4.
Man alive - we've now got 5
Giving it big licks now - We've got 6!
Just thought I'd add this one to this list. We did see 7 but I totally lost the plot by then and he flew away just as I clicked.
This little chap got fed up being crowded on the branch and went fishing.
He even brought something back to share.
And share he did - big Awwwwww
Well, I hope you enjoyed seeing this little series as I much as I did. As I said the quality let's it down, but the novelty I hope made up for it. Thanks for viewing. Chris x
By the way, I tried every setting on my camera including Automatic and each time the "yellow flashing focus warning light" came on. In the end I just kept clicking regardless. Any ideas what I can do should this warning show again. Thanks in advance.
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Well Chris what can one say, Flaming Nora you get the lot! I bet you were shaking in disbelief I know I would, lucky you, nice one enjoyed that a like from me and Favourites, regards Leon.
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jealous all i see is the blue flash along the river did see a aussie king fisher in the zoo recently failed to get that i focus too lol
good blog well done
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Hi Chris what a super photoblog you have just posted of those Kingfishers and to get so many in one picture simply brilliant you must have been there hours. Chris a brilliant blog and many thanks for sharing BoB.xx P/S perhaps you could have a peek at my first blog of 2012 thanks .
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Whoops, sorry I've duplicated the second image - well you know I'm blonde and elderly now having just celebrated a HUGE birthday. Is it possible to replace the second picture with another one or would the replacement shot default to the end of the blog?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR CHRISSIE HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HIP HIP HORRAY!, HAVE A NICE DAY LOL.
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Bob - Thanks for your lovely message, on my way over to your blog right now ........................
Leon- Awwww thanks so much, you've made an old girl happy!!!
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Hi Chris
Now you are just rubbing it in!!!! You know darn well how I have been longing to capture a Kingfisher. I am just going to refuse to look at this photoblog any longer, it's breaking my heart!!!! Lol
Super stuff Chris, great shots and I am only a tiny bit jealous, well a lot really. Lol
Super Dooper to say the least. OK spill the beans, how many birthdays have you had then? A big Mwah for each year. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (21 to save ya counting!!)
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Great blog Chrissie. The Kingfisher is a lovely bird and you have some great shots here, I especially like the one of the little chap in the mud.
All the best.
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Hi Steve, I'll email you will the number it's toooooooooooo big to put on here! Thanks for the 21x's but you better get those lips puckered up for a lot more!
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Oh Chris weren't you the lucky one! I think we have Kingfishers here, as they are listed in my numerous bird books, but none to be seen in our travels! I just love your photos and your commentary - they are wonderful little birds! Thanks for sharing and I hope you had a wonderful HUGE birthday!
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Great stuff Chris! Like Steve I'm still waiting for a decent kingfisher photo!
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absolutely exceptional. Lucky you. well done, thoroughly enjoyed your blog.
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You have to be in the right place at the right time and you most certainly were.
Well done.
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Well I have to say the other 5 you've photoshopped in have been done very well, I can't see the join!! lol
Seriously though, that must have been a magnificent sight, and well done you for getting all the shots.
Didn't know it was your birthday, hope you had a great day......and if you want to see the next one you'll stop taunting me and Steve with those darned Kingfishers....unless you send two return tickets for us to see them for ourselves...lol.
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My very favourite blog! well done, how lucky you are, and the photos are brilliant !
We are touring the top of north island in December, unfortunately I do not think we are staying near enough to visit your beautiful area of Omokoroa, maybe I can see some Kingfishers on my journey!
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Nice shots.Thanks for sharing.
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Chris, this is absolutley fabulous, and to see so many all at once, you must have thought I'm dreaming. They are all such brilliant photos as well. Colour superb. Lucky Lucky you, my favourite bird but alas I have never seen one that close up.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. This wont be long before it get on the scroller and well deserved it will be. Thanks again. Pam
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How lucky can you get, lol. I bet as you were shooting away, you were thinking 'This'll wind a few people up'. Nice blog Chris.
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Brilliant Chris! What a lovely birthday surprise for you then, all those Kingfishers. You must have thought it was your Birthday and Christmas rolled in one !! LOL!! Fantastic! Last time I saw a flash of a Kingfisher I was with Steve Ransome in Wales on the Fuji Meet. The time before that was in the 90's when I used to fish the canals and Rivers and they used to land close but I wasn't as big into photography then like I am now. Thanks for sharing. (Happy BIG Birthday to you...bet you're not as old as me at 52 next month...)
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Super captures Chris, what a wonderful sight!! A very happy birthday from me as well (bet you've not turned 60 like me!!!!!)
thank you for sharing this super sight xxxx
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wow they are so cute!!! i really like it enjoy your time there i bet its amazing!
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HI Chris
So envious of you seeing and photographing the kingfishers and to see so many in one go, been trying to catch one myself with no luck... Lucky You...
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How lucky are you, my wife would give anything to see just one.
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Brilliant Chris! I loved your poem too as the numbers increased.
The one of the kingfisher in the mud looked like a little old man!! Don't worry about the focus thing flashing, I think it's just to warn you that you need to hold the camera steady, you seem to have overcome it anyway as they are all great!!
Thanks for sharing, and happy birthday! As for being old, rubbish your only a slip of a girl!!!
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Happy Birthday Chris !...and Brilliant capture's of the Kingfishers !...must have been dead exciting and I know what it's like shooting at full zoom/hand held....most my shot's are like that...lol...I'm never close enough to do anything else....he he... but I should be so lucky, to see a Kingfisher let alone 7 of 'em.
What a smashin' little birthday prezzy eh !
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Envious here too.
Thought the photos were great, especially that one of the little chap fishing.
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Great set of shots, wonder if it was your lucky day or whether they'll all be there again on another visit...?
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Hi Everyone, I responded to you all directly to thank you for your visits and lovely comments.I must admit I was so chuffed to see the little group all together. I was leaping around like a lunatic (nothing new) trying to catch them all before they went.
Thanks Mr Finepix too. Yes we went back on the next 2 days at the same time, but no joy.We'll have another go this weekend.
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Chris, you are really very naughty. There are some of us who have never even seen a Kingfisher, never mind photographed one, me included.
Never mind, as you are a nice person you're forgiven. Top blog with rather good images.
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Thanks for the e~mail Chris,I would have missed this otherwise. You really are rubbing Steve's nose in it. Great Blog and Great photos.....lucky (?) you. As for being elderly....no way....but don't worry about it 'cos life begins at 40 (when you get there !!!) it really does. So you've got something to look forward to.
Don't know about NZ this year, we travel a lot as you know but we're both a little weary of long hauls (done 3 in 12 months) and have another cruise in June. I have to do something special as its our 30th Anniversary in November...so we'll see.
Hope Jim is OK.
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Great blog, Chris - lovely photos.
Amazing to see seven Kingfishers in one go.
Thanks for your recent comments.
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Brilliant, and just ignore the flashing light when you have photo's this good, love your comments, super, made me smile no end.
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You have got to be kidding me!!
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Amazing shots, Chris ... you`re so lucky to have seen them & have your camera there to record it!
Thanks for sharing
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Great set of shots, it looks like kingfisher heaven!
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Brilliant.
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Super shots Chris! A move this week has given me the chance to try and catch one myself. There is one perching in a gum at the end of the garden and it also pops down to a gatepost, so.... the hunt is on!! I will be pleased if I get something approaching what you have here.
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A lovely collection of "family photos." I'll bet that sharing your joy with the Fuji community ranks as a close second to being there--we all know that kingfishers are highly-sough aftert. We do have them here as well--I've seen a couple, but haven't attempted a photograph yet.
Well-written little blog, too. I liked.
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Very good selection of kingfishers, Chris!
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Wow they look lovely and rich in colour. You done very well in capturing them.
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Ho Hum, how can us mere mortals ever compete with your magnificent collection of Kingfishers ;-D I have only ever seen them when I lived in Australia, and never had a camera handy even if I could have been fast enough to capture them. Have added your blog to my favourites, so I can enjoy again and again ... Carol
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wow, one of my favorite birds, and you captured many, well done, if only i could be so lucky with the british kingfisher..
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