Azure Kingfisher at Jerrabomberra Wetlands

[pardalote <>]

Hi All (particularly Marnix and Barbara)

Attached is the picture of the Azure Kingfisher seen at Fulica hide on Thursday morning, its perching location, and the unusual bird report form.  The picture of the bird itself has been significantly "blown up" and had brightness, contrast adjusted etc due to the camera/lens setup being inadequate to take a decent picture.  You should still be able to see the orange and blue colouring.  Additionally, Julian Teh and I went out there this morning to look for the bird, but did not see it.

Matt.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Marnix Zwankhuizen <> wrote:

Hi Matt

Would you mind sending me those blurry photos you mentioned. I'm keen to see an Azure Kingfisher in the ACT.

Thanks

Marnix

On 21/02/2013, at 2:08 PM, pardalote <> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> This morning I finally made it out to Kelly's swamp with my small school group.  Due to the wetlands being disappointingly dry, we decided to walk down towards Jerrabomberra Creek.  We startled a night heron, and surprisingly, we found water (in the creek).  While scanning the river bank opposite to Fulica hide (~30m away), I spied an Azure Kingfisher perching on a cluster of branches lying vertically above the creek.  It was showing its magnificent blue back to us.  It then flew across the surface of the water, appearing to "skip" across the top like a stone, before perching again to show us its bright orange belly.  This was between 8:00 and 8:15.  Apart from that, nothing of interest other than an oriole, SN ibis and a BS kite.
>
> Hopefully I will be able to get a photo of its perch up later, and hopefully a blurry "close-up" of the bird from that same shot.
>
> Matt.
>

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