My kingfisher photos

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I know exactly what you mean Chris and never really thought of that before. My biggest challenge so far has been would you believe Highland cows! I would have thought nothing could be easier with several fields full of them. The problem not being in this case making the picture look interesting, but getting close to them. The most timid animals for being farm animals. I spent many hours trying to get a decent shot and almost gave up. By pure luck on my last attempt I decided to stalk them (sounds crazy I know) I drove round the back end of field behind a hill that's covered in gorse, my plan was to crawl through gorse and hide & wait. I got out car and when I closed the door 5 of them must have heard it & ran to top of hill to investigate. Bean bag quickly on car roof & got a great pic (great as in the way the 5 of them are standing in a line looking down at me) by pure luck. I have sold 6 pics in a week of them at £30 each so I'm over the moon.
Going back to Kingfishers, another reason I dont get turned on by what are as you rightly say are more challenging birds is even if I did get a fantastic shot of lets say a blackbird it would stay on my comp and be no further use to me, where as a kingfisher would be enlarged and put up in my sitting room or even sold. It is horses for courses ofcourse & up to the individual on what he or she enjoys at the end of the day. One things for sure, I'm not enjoying trying to get bullfinches, I can hear them everyday and they have came to my feeders once. I'm not looking forward to sitting in a hide waiting for them, but I've got some feeders with Niger seed today so I can photograph goldfinches as I wait :-)