Kingfisher, robin and more

I was again at my bird feeding place, but without jay pictured. They were in place but no one wanted to sit on the perch that I have put out. : ((
But a magpie was caught on picture very early in the morning, it was still pretty dark outside and the camera was set to manuell mode shutter 1/200s ISO 1600 so picture was a little bit dark :) A so-called low key image where most of it is black, might be fine with those photos, too. Unfortunately, little cut off tail feather.
But today I was down to Endcliff  Park because I had read on the Sheffield bird study group that two kingfishers had been there yesterday, so I went down today to check if they were there and they was there. So I tried to photograph them for a few hours i got some pics of them, but it's hard to get really close to them because they are in the middle of a pond. So the closest you can get them is about 6m it is fun to be able to get so close, but it would be much better if I get closer because that will blur the background on the image even more.
But in this pond I have the chance to take my dream picture of the kingfisher, which is when it dives into the water and the water splashes and it has fish in its beak that is the image I will hunt all winter hope I succeed :))

 

Camera i used: Nikon D90, D3s and nikon 200-400 f4 lens

 

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Kestrel and magpie fighting

Today I went down to the Rivelin Valley, walked around there for 4 hours. The weather was really nice today, sunny and warm.
Went there because i want to put up some bird feeding station so I can shoot birds in winter, up close. But it's so steep and scrubby everywhere so I'll have to think of another place. Down in the valley, I took most pictures of different fungi and some pics of the autumn colors in trees, that are now finally starting to come. But what I'm most waiting for is to beech forest to get their colors firmly now,  it is only on the tops of the trees as fall colors have arrived and some trees who started a bit early. So I hope it will be good then, or it will be just that, so that leaves just fall off without time to get their colors.
Anyway on the way home as I passed the open field and there was a kestrel who tried to chase some thing but it seemed to have some bad luck. And not any better when a magpie came to annoy it. But it was fun to follow the 2 when they shouted and chased each other, i could follow them for half an hour and they were in the same place all the time. Unfortunately, they were about 30m away from me and with a 400mm lens, then it is not so close. So the pictures are pretty hard cropped so the quality is not the best :))

Camera equipment i used today: Nikon 3Ds and Nikon 200-400mm f4 lens.
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