Kingfisher and Great -spotted woodpecker fight

6 November 2022 In Bird photography Hide photography Hide rental Kingfisher Millers wood PHOTOGRAPHY WOODLAND BIRDS Woodpecker

I was running a one-to-one workshop on Tuesday and managed to catch a short but entertaining fight between a Kingfisher and a woodpecker.

The Kingfisher was sitting on a post when he was joined by a feisty woodpecker that tried to peck him, the kingfisher came back at the woodpecker which promptly flew off, it all happened in seconds and I wasn’t expecting this so managed to clip the wings on one of the shots.

Here are a few from the session.

Also on Monday had a few hours to capture the Kingfisher on crabapple branches I wanted to photograph which came out well.

All photos were taken with my Z9 and 200-500 lens, various iso’s as its rained a lot this week, and around 7.1 aperture to get more of the apples in focus.

Here are a few from Monday.