"Kingfisher Blues"

Common Kingfisher

Species : Alcedo atthis

 

This beautiful kingfisher was diving down from the branches, but not very successfully he had the kingfisher blues!

But after a few more attempts, success came in the form of a minnow dinner!

This is the first kingfisher that I have seen ever, it was fishing in a built-up area of Bristol, on a lake.

This little chap was quite far off so the picture is a little grainy, if I am lucky enough to see another one, I may get a better shot of it!

 

Kingfishers have short legs, and tiny feet so as to enable them to perch more easily on thin overhanging branches!

If they evolved long legs and big feet, it would make it harder for them to stabilize or grasp a thin branch, nature has all the answers!

Also kingfishers will momentarily hover above the water to get their eye in, if a suitable branch is not available.

The female can be identified by a reddish base to her bill.

 

 

 

 

By Sean Walsh.

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