Constant Rain, Kingfishers and Buzzards...........what a start to the year
The weather so far this year has consisted of rain, rain and more rain. In fact, the rain has been so bad that much of January and February so far, has seen severe weather warnings for floods here in S W France. Needlees to say, even though I am happy to put up with severe conditions myself, the wildlife has far more sense and has been sheltering from the rain and my camera lens. Of course, I always work on the basis that if I am not outside searching, then I am not going to shoot anything! Having spent the best part of last year, trying to get a decent shot of a Kingfisher, 2021 got off to a cracking start, when I visited a friends lake again. With my 'pop-up' hide erected close to the 'perches' that I put in the lake last summer, I was fully prepared to just sit and hope that something might show up on the land that surrounds the lake. In the past 12 months, this location had given me shots of Kingfisher, Buzzards, Coypu, Foxes and Deer, so on a cold winters morn