Along the Allier, there were all day round black kites soaring over the river. They often feed on dead stranded fish, who got stuck in undeep water after flooding of the river along the banks. The river Allier is known as a reference river in Western Europe. The river has still a very natural course between it's source and the place where it joins the Loire. It is still a natural dynamic ecosystem, with natural sandy and stony gravel river banks, seasonally flooded forests and graslands.The course of the river changes anually, due to the high dynamic of the river.
The picture was made by stitching in photoshop a sequence of photographs.