When I walked in the door, after the jeers of 'Good Afetrnoon', I looked around to a sea of familiar faces. I suppose that's what you get for visiting a hide on a sunny Bank Holiday Sunday! Aparently, as was reported by some who were there a tad earlier than me, there were over twenty at one point!

A packed Hide.

All there to see one thing. A Kingfisher. The Kingfisher that regularly visits throughout the day. Only today, he obviously had a day off as well because, in the 6 hours that Tony was sat there, it flew straight past just the once! And that was around the 8am mark! Throughout the morning there was thousands of pounds worth of camera equipment aimed at a continuously empty perch!

There was a certain amount of entertainment provided by Tony, jumping around every time a dragonfly flew around outside the hide and a fair bit of an extension of the perpetual Nikon/Canon argument, but as Phil was the only Canon user in the hide at the time, it had a rather different outcome to usual!

Other discussions, which were numerous as there was little else to do, revolved around photography in general, getting work published, Micro sites and the black art of Photoshop.

As the light started to get worse, around the 1 o'clock mark, the numbers started to thin, but as we found 30 minutes later, the conversations had only moved down the track a way, where Dave had set up his tripod to capture another Dragon that had settled for a rest. The constant flow of people stopping for as quick chat though, had scared it off and Dave gave up as we headed past him towards the Pub for a refresher!

I think this was what Tony was after!

The day certainly made a lot of sense of Phil's suggestion, at the last (organised) meeting that a photography venue should be included for the next meeting!

Perhaps the Kingfisher knew!!