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Click play to watch this little clip of a male kingfisher on a favourite perch...1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00The photo below shows me leaving a camera (Canon 5D MkIII) trained on the kingfishers favourite perch...
Using a PIR sensor (similar to that of security lights) the camera would be triggered should anything move in its field of vision, in this case ...PT20Shttps://di262mgurvkjm.cloudfront.net/7f8052a1-3d54-48ae-a550-e3646b69f449/IMAG0650_xlarge.jpghttps://di262mgurvkjm.cloudfront.net/7f8052a1-3d54-48ae-a550-e3646b69f449/IMAG0650_mp4_hd_video.mp4
I think kingfishers make for a better photo than me (notice the short hair cut, or what I like to call my COVID cut!)
At the same time I wanted to test whether the kingfishers would use a perch I put in the river. So about 100m upstream I plonked a stick in the river, held upright by rocks, and left another trail camera on lookout.
Author: Alastair Marsh
Alastair Marsh