Thanks so much! Here in Montana we are getting more and more rip rap along our river banks and nesting sites are diminishing. I am looking forward to installing a nest box next to my irrigation ditch

@RichardBirchett

18 күн бұрын

My pleasure, That is awesome, nothing better than giving nature a helping hand from time to time. Sad to here about sites becoming scarce! Lets hope you get lucky, keep me posted I'd like to hear how you get on. R👍

Thank you for preserving our wildlife.

@RichardBirchett

6 ай бұрын

Our pleasure Ben, thanks very much for watching. Fingers crossed we get some nesting birds next year. Cheers Richard 👍

Fantastic!!! What a lovely idea. Keep fingers crossed. We'll done.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Charlie, such a rewarding thing to do, and to give nature a hand for a change. Fingers crossed. Cheers Richard 👍

hi richard don't forget to fill the tubes with sand, otherwise vermin will get in, the kingfisher will make a corridor in d4 tube to make a nest. in the autumn you can then clean the pipes and fill them with sand again. you then cover the tube opening with a cap, which you remove again in the spring so that the kingfisher can make its nest in it again. good luck with your project.👍

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for watching and for the additional tips. We've since filled one of the tunnels partially and put some mud in the entrance hole to make it more effective. Lets hope we get a visit or two! Cheers Richard 👍

@theflyingdutchman7127

Жыл бұрын

@@RichardBirchett hi richard the best filler for the pipes is sand with loam, or at least sand that sticks together a bit. good luck with your kingfisher project

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

@@theflyingdutchman7127 Thanks very much, we've used something similar and with some consistency to make it more robust. Will keep you posted via the community page. Cheers R

@theflyingdutchman7127

Жыл бұрын

@@RichardBirchett A bird working group is active in our region where I live. years ago they placed a swallow wall along the river. it's nice that kingfishers also use it. you have to clean the tubes in the autumn after the birds have left and fill them again with sticky Sand.

Great work Richard, here's hoping all the hard work pays off mate. 👍🤞📷🎥

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, that would be a massive Win Win! Might take a year or two but she's up! All the best R👍👊

Love this - great work from you and Terry! :)

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, lots of fun with quite a few laughs! xx

Awesome!!!! Congrats on the project. Thanks for sharing.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Rui, we really hope to get lucky! Cheers Richard 👍

Love this, great work both

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Lee👍

Brilliant project Richard,great work from both of you 👍👍

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers Alan 👍

Very well done. Increadible work.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Jose, very rewarding! Hope it works 👍🤞🏻

Great project Richard, Really hope you get nesting Kingfisher. All the best Steve.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Steve, we've now installed the second one so fingers crossed it works. Thanks for watching👍

Awesome work!!!!

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Chris 👍

Such interesting and inspirational work @Richard, Very nice to see your dedication and I'm super jealous of your experience and knowledge.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Nate, it’s just lovely to give something back to nature and help them out👍. Fingers crossed they use it 🤞🏻. All the best Richard

Superb as always

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Great idea Richard, will be following it’s progress, fingers crossed. 🤞🤞🤞🤞

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Fingers crossed Mark, Thanks very much for watching. Cheers Rich 👍

Love it Rich, can’t wait to see what happens with this. Would be awesome to get a camera inside like you suggested. Cheers Keith

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Keith, I know it really would be a great idea! Not enough time and money! Maybe near. Really hope it provides a home for them. Cheers Rich

Wonderful ⭐️Great deeds

@RichardBirchett

3 күн бұрын

Thanks very much indeed, hopefully a successful breeding year for the kingfishers 🙏👍

Brilliant!!! Fantastic! Great feeling helping nature ! Definitely worth all the hard work there . Look forward to seeing how that goes over the spring ! Top post as always 👍

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Craig, it was such great fun and seeing the Kingfishers keeping an eye on us was rather funny! Providing a helping hand is such a good thing to do! Cheers Rich 👍

Excellent look forward too updates.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Barry, I'll get updates out when I've news. Cheers Richard 👍

Fantastic Richard 👍👊👍

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers John 👍

Super job Richard. I hope you get some results. Fingers crossed🤞

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Trev, probably asking a lot but you never can tell. Cheers Richard 👍

Absolutely Fantastic both of you. Fabulous build, let's just hope the Kingfishers think so! Looking forward to the updates on rhe progress of this. Top work mate. 👏

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Craig, brilliant fun and providing new habitats for Wildlife is so rewarding, lets hope they make it their home! Will keep you posted.. Cheers R 👍

Fantastic. What a brilliant thing to do. Top man. All the very best to you and the Kingfishers. 👍📷😎

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Rob, lots of fun making it! And if they took to it we'd be over that moon, lol. Cheers Rich 👍

Great project Richard 👍

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Mark, nice to be able to help nature. Cheers Rich 👍

Love it well done guys for dining this video so nice and hope they use it can’t wait for the next video to see if they do use it thanks for sharing

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for watching Dave, fingers crossed they do.Cheers Richard 👍

Excellent bit of conservation work Richard, looking forward to see the reward👍

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Laurence, You and me both! Might be a all ask but wouldn’t it be good 🙏🤞🏻

My goodness what a lot of work getting it set up.Well done for taking the time to help these lovely birds have a safe place to nest and hopefully breed!Fingers crossed for some great photos and of course for the birds to enjoy in safety.🥰

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers, we really hope it does but as with all Wildlife there are never any guarantees! But you never know we might get lucky! Thanks R 👍

Great video. Very clear and instructive. I built a similar artificial habitat for kingfishers using a fruit juice barrel on a pole. A couple of thoughts. I'd have filled the tunnels with a substrate myself - v. weak lean mix or similar - so the kingfisher can carry out its natural activity and dig its way inside. Second, I'd have installed a somewhat wider board to keep the entrance holes further away from those vertical posts. I'm thinking of how agile predators can be when they're trying to get at something. Best they stretch themselves too far and drop off into the water. Anyway, great stuff all round, nonetheless. I hope your video inspires others so the know how can evolve and develop.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for watching Paul and for leaving a comment with your experiences in designing the kingfishers a home. It’s great to be able to share notes of what you’ve found the best way to build one. Makes lots of sense, we’ve since built two and have made a few new adjustments, some of which you’ve mentioned. Fingers crossed we will get results for next years breeding season! Thanks again Rich👍

Well done, mate. What a great thing to do! I was literally just about to leave for a local Kingfisher reccie and then this video came up, how timely ! Nice to learn they still show themselves even with you both outside working. Good luck with it and fingers crossed you'll have them nesting there.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Lol, perfect timing! Really do hope we will eventually provide a home or roost fore them.I hope you had some luck? Cheers Rich 👍

@wildphil

Жыл бұрын

@RICHARD BIRCHETT Sadly no luck yesterday but the river levels were up and much faster due to the rain and melting snow so maybe that had something to do with it. The location looks good so I'll try again when the water levels drop and the river slows down.

Well done Richard ,good luck with seeing the kingfisher visiting the site .

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Fingers crossed Gary, had a visit from a Wren so far! Although I've not be monitoring it as much as I'd like. Cheers Richard 👍

Curious if this works out! Looking forward keeping fingers crossed!

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Me too Robert, thanks again for watching. Cheers Richard 👍

Awesome project! Hope the kingfishers will enjoy their new little home! :)

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Me too! Never a done deal but I'd be chuffed if they did! Richard 👍

Very nice project. We build one in my area a few years ago but unfortuntly no kingfisher used it til now. Greets Stefan

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Stefan, fingers crossed they do take to your bank, I was thinking it might take a while but it was a lot of fun making it. Thanks again for watching. All the best Richard

Wonderful project, fingers crossed for you and the KFs. I've often thought about building one but my territories are on public land, so a lot of caveats involved. Nice to hear Sched 1 mentioned too, not many folk know about it. Best of luck Richard, looking forward to this.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for watching Dale, that's a bit of a shame, do you think the Wildlife Trusts might be interested in something like that? Always good to mention the Schedule 1. Thanks again Richard 👍

@dalepowell5368

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard. The main problems for me on public land would be potentially giving away the loations, as well as vandalism.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s a fair shout! Such a shame you can’t trust people these days! Plus it would become a very popular spot with some people who might not get the licence thing!

Waiting with a great excitement to see if KF will chose your nest. Great job.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mustafa, it would be awesome if they did! Not guaranteed but you never know! All the best Richard 👍

That's a real labour of love project Richard, did you have to get permission or do you already have the license? Either way I'm looking forward to the future videos on how this develops. I see your rocking the beard now, this in preparation for Canada. I see lot's more photographer's getting involved with conservation work and that's a good thing, only wish more of us were so inclined. Our gardens been developing for years now, nest boxes, bat boxes, dozen feeders, hedgehog house and feeder. We even put the hair from our three maincoons out for the birds to use in their nests. Half our grass is now seeded for wild flowers this year, ulterior motive of course, help the bee's etc and hopefully get some macro shots. 🙂

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, it's a great little project with lots more to come before I head off to Canada! I've not got a licence for Kingfishers and will unlikely get one this year. I will photograph the Kingfishers but well away from the nest. It's great to see people doing that, lets face it the Natural world needs a little helping hand as so much is against them. I just love to be able to make a small difference, just a much of a buzz as is getting a dream shot! Lovely that you are providing habitat too, I do that with the hair from our pets, plus fluff from the tumble dryer, lol.. I'm not a hairy type of chap so growing any sort of facial hair isn't easy, lol... Thought I'd give it a go, probably shave it off when it gets warmer. Thanks for watching, Cheers Rich

Great thing to give back to nature! Did you get any activity?

@RichardBirchett

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Ian, we've had a few visits but we installed them a bit late in the season but hopeful in the years to come they will take up residence. Cheers Rich

This is a great project, hopefully the ponds will be alive with Kingfishers in a few years. I built 4 nest boxes for a small wooded area in my kids school a month back, they’re up but I haven’t gone back to see if anything has taken a fancy to them yet. We as photographers/nature lovers should take the time to help birds/animals, especially hole nesting birds as the old trees with natural holes are disappearing fast. If we don’t do it, who will ??

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for watching, lets hope they do! Nice one, we do all need to do our bit to help Wildlife, because lets face it they need all the help they can get. Best of luck and I'll keep my fingers crossed both of our projects are successful. Cheers Rich 👍

Awesome job Sir, looking forward to positive results to your hard work. You probably have thought about it but my concern was that the predators, mink and the like may be able to climb up the left post and gain access to the nest by stretching across. I hope I don't offend.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Lindsey, it would be so good if they used it but never any certainty, but it was great fun doing it and to help Nature gives me a real Buzz.. We did think that but it would be so difficult to get any purchase on the hole and we have since dressed the top with gorse and bramble to deter other would be predators! Lets hope it works. Not at all, great to have your feedback. All the best Rich 👍

Great work, anything that can help with breeding gets my vote, and also makes for good photographs ;-)

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers James, glad you feel the same. Great to be able to help the birds out, really hope it works! Updates coming soon. Cheers Richard 👍

good luck 😘💪

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Oliver 👍

Hi Richard. Any update on the nest box. Building one to your plans at Fota Wildlife Park in Ireland.

@RichardBirchett

6 ай бұрын

That's awesome to hear Paddy, we've had visits from a few different Kingfishers over the year but we were too late to get any nesters this year but hopeful for next season. We have now built two on each lake so it's good to give them the choice, they have weathered nicely now so certainly part of the lake now. Keep me posted on how you get on, be great to see the finished product and to get the birds would be awesome. Cheers Rich 👍

@paddynoneofyourbusinesss.3766

6 ай бұрын

@@RichardBirchett Will do. Thanks for the reply and posting the video

@RichardBirchett

6 ай бұрын

@@paddynoneofyourbusinesss.3766 my pleasure, best of luck 🤞🏻💪🏻👍

Nice video Richard, I have been watching a Kingfisher on a small river near me. I've heard if you put in a perch they will not be able to resist landing on it. Any tips on where about to put in the perch? There is a small water drop point there and it's slightly deeper. Would this be a good location to put it in? Cheers Lee 📸

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Hi Lee, thanks for watching. I've put up several perches at varying heights. Some in the middle of the ponds and some in sheltered spots. The optimum height for the Kingfishers to dive from is around 6-8 feet which works well and allows you to capture that diving shot. Find an area with a nice bit of deep water, pools etc, too shallow and they won't use it. I hope that helps. I did a video on them if you've not watched it. Thanks again Richkzread.info/dash/bejne/e3-mzJuGk67bf5M.html

@leehanley71

Жыл бұрын

@@RichardBirchett Thanks Mate will take a look 📸👍🏽

Nice work But hope that’s marine ply if not it won’t last five minutes.

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Shane, of course! Wouldn’t use anything else. I’m sure I said it was but I could be wrong 👍

Great stuff Richard, fingers crossed they use it! This is something i'll build where i work, we have a kingfisher reside over winter, but disappear any time now to breed elsewhere, Next week we have a pair of beavers arriving, so something like this will be fantastic & really add to the eco system!!

@RichardBirchett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy, best of luck if you do! Exciting with the Beavers arriving, wow! Always good to give Wildlife a helping hand. Cheers Rich 👍

Hi did it work ?

@RichardBirchett

5 ай бұрын

Hi there, thanks for watching. When we installed the bank we were a month or so too late for the season so missed our chance in 2023, however they have been inspecting the banks and holes so we are hopeful for 2024. We also made another bank a month after the previous with a few new modifications so we are keeping our fingers crossed fir a successful season in the spring. Thanks Rich 👍