I have taken thousands and thousands of photographs, mostly of birds sitting staring at the camera, portraits in other words.  But without doubt my best pictures are when the action is captured and this has been my focus this last few weeks.  After a very heavy spell of rain which lasted 8 hours or so, the brook was flooded and  water covered my hide,  although it had already started to recede by late afternoon.  I am not too worried about the Kingfisher(s).  Experience has shown me that they still manage to find enough food in flooded conditions although all the usual recycled information on the internet will have you believe otherwise.  I agree, it is incredible that Kingfishers can survive for a few days when their waters are muddy and in flood but they certainly do.  Even when the water is flooded for several days and as long as a week, in the four years of studying the Kingfishers on the brook  all of them have always survived. It is really worth remembering that information published on the net is never edited or checked and in this way false information can be spread around. You see the same facts repeated constantly and you assume it to be true, not realising that it has simply been copied from incorrect information in the first place. Even the RSPB makes reference to Kingfishers dying in flooded conditions because they can't feed. This is simply not correct and they should really not publish such inaccuracies.   Anyway, back to today. I obviously couldn't get in to my brook hide and when the sun started to shine brightly I thought it would be a good opportunity to try for more in flight shots on the edge of my wood hide. I managed another couple of photos that pleased my, the first one speaks for itself but the one below seemed quite interesting with an unusual wing shape as the bird comes in to land and uses the wings as a brake.  This is the kind of action you can't see with the naked eye and why I really like in-flight photos of small birds. You might be interested know that I have come to the conclusion that you need a shutter speed of 1/4000 of a second to really freeze the action with Blue Tits and Coal Tits but with Nuthatches and Great Tits which are a little bit bigger, 1/3200 is usually sufficient.

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