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Female Kingfisher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

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 …

Female Kingfisher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Patience

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

Female Kingfisher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Near and far

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

Female Kingfisher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Queenfisher at Medlock Vale

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

Kingfisher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

When Kingfishers attack

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

Kingfisher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Kingfisher on the Lemon

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

Kingfisher - Lago di Alviano - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

When the Kingfisher paid a visit

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 …

Kingfisher - Lago di Alviano - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Before and after fish

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

Kingfisher - Lago di Alviano - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Queenfisher

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

Kingfisher - Alviano - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

The King of Fishers

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

Kingfisher - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Martin the fisherman

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 …