A two and a half hour trip down the River Wye this morning. We saw at least eight kingfishers. Each seemed to be holding a territory of about half a mile. I suspect that many of these birds were the dispersed young from this year's successful breeding. I have never seen anything like so many kingfishers in one day before today.There were also numerous swans and canada geese. Amongst the birds that flew across the river were grey wagtails and pheasants.
Saw a very large barbel being landed by an angler and another large fish leapt from the river in front of my boat.
Several bats were flying this evening both above the river and in the adjoining woodland. Their flights were witnessed with an accompanying chorus from the several tawny owls.
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