While I was hiding behind some trees, with an open shot at an osprey, didn’t matter if the osprey flew north or south, some Northern Flickers showed up wanting to share the tree with the osprey. I passed up shooting them, stayed focused on the osprey. Minutes later I heard a Belted Kingfisher working its way down stream. Not wanting to be left out, the Belted Kingfisher decided it wanted some space on the tree the osprey was sitting in.

Now there had to be an opening here for some kind of shot….but not today. The flickers flew away, the kingfisher took off downstream and while I was trying to get a shot of the kingfisher, the osprey flew upstream. Feeling somewhat defeated, I crawled through the brush and got back to the car. Racine had a decent shot of the kingfisher that she was reviewing and I had zippo. In the car, off we go and WHAT! Just fifty feet in front of us the Belted Kingfisher lands in a dead tree. It was looking upstream, but eventually it turned around into great light and snap-snap-snap, finally a decent shot, at least I like it. You just never know when something will turn up.

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