Kingfishers

Watching sky and water

Kingfishers are vulnerable to predators. Apart from cats, rats, stoats, weasels and mink, there’s the threat of death from the air from …

If patience is a virtue, Kingfishers are very virtuous birds. This one sat watching for ripples and underwater silhouettes for five minutes. …

I love to see a Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis. This female is stunning even though she’s far away in the reeds. And she’s …

A lovely, cold, New Year walk in Daisy Nook Country Park was brightened even more by a flash of emerald green. It’s …

There’s a flash of electric blue and a Kingfisher arrows past on its intensely important mission. Coots beware!

Much of the nature I’ve enjoyed in Devon this year has been close to home. It’s been a short walk or cycle …

The Dippers are resting so I decide to wander upstream and experience the sound of the water, the bubble of fish squirming …

My Italian life in 2019 started in January with a whale of a murmuration with a raptor on its tail. Just click …

There’s a female Kingfisher on a nearby branch. I can tell it’s a female because, as they say, “It’s wearing lipstick.” Female …

This female Kingfisher is wonderful. She’s bobbing her head, calling and peering into the water below. We’ve heard her calling from across …

I’ve just spent my birthday sitting in a small wooden shed. Last year we were here looking at Red Squirrels in the …

The views of Kingfishers I’ve had before were fleeting. A brief glimpse of a flash of a bluish-emerald jewel disappearing over the …

I’m in Italy on the trail of some interesting birds. The signs are good, literally, as there’s a big three-dimensional sign with …