I walked over there today and took the blue bag and a load of other litter. Went back later and it had been replaced with a white one 😤

My local wetlands - Walthamstow - is similar in that it’s free but without the birder permit (issued by lottery) you can’t access a lot of it. So you think WWT do these practices to make it more like a zoo so people visit and pay? Can you go there and avoid those aspects?

Looks perfect!! Thank you ☺️

If there are no birds I’ll write a strongly worded letter of complaint ✍️

Oooh wow - you played the long game!

Wow at 400mm is amazing! My longest lens is 70-350 and I hired a 200-600. That photo was taken at 600. Plus my camera is APS-C so there’s the crop factor too. I need to get closer!!

These are absolutely brilliant! Do you mind me asking what your setup is? I’ve become obsessed with trying to get a good kingfisher photo 😂 I even hired a longer lens. But I still didn’t manage to get detail like you’ve got! I need to get closer, or even longer lens! This is my best effort so far…

Yeah I regularly go to check the sewer outfall and usually one flies out of there. It’s so bitter-sweet to see kingfishers there. Often little egrets and herons too. And recently a grey wagtail. It became a noisy hangout in the summer for a while and they disappeared. But they’re back now.

Yes it was in the Olympic Park - in Henniker’s Ditch/Channelsea River - where the sewer outflow is 😞 I often see them there.

Absolutely beautiful!!!! I got some more photos the other day. Couldn’t get close so had to crop in so much I lost all the detail 🙈 need a longer lens.

I thought it'd be fun to document my thoughts on the London Loop as I'm walking it, something I wish I'd done when I walked the Capital Ring last year. It's been a while since I flexed my creative muscles, really enjoyed writing this. nikmortimer.substack.com/p/london-loo...

With a dollar in my hand 🎵

Do you miss London?

That photo was meant to be of one flying out but I missed it entirely 🤦‍♀️