I think with my last upload of a Sacred Kingfisher I mentioned how I had seen the most I have ever seen this last season. Here is another to add to the sightings.
We have finally been able to start Obedience classes with the ever excitable Harpo. The classes are in a semi rural town, not too far from home (20 minutes) but somewhere I had never been before.
As a consequence of this, we decided to go exploring and ended up along the Goulburn River at Seymour where some flashes of metallic blue alerted me to a pair of Kingfishers. I had to do some stalking and for a short period of time, this one perched long enough for me to creep in to a reasonable distance to take this image.
I recently read an enormous thread on a social media site about the legitimacy of calling oneself a "birder" a birdwatcher, a twitcher, a bird photographer etc and how much snobbery around the term there is. I have never thought about it much.
I know I love birds and they bring me great joy that I found rather late in life. I like to watch them, learn about them and photograph them. I like to travel around to see them and find new species.
Maybe I'll just stick with birdie nerd.
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