I have to confess to the onset of the winter miseries over the last few days. Things are not going well just lately, my  teeth are a real problem with root filling booked for next Wednesday. My plans to travel the world to photograph wildlife and explore wild places is not going to happen due to a wife who would rather stay at home and to be honest, lack of funds.   My band is causing me real heartache and worries, and worse of all, I hadn’t seen my Kingfisher on the hide perch for more than two weeks.  Then, this morning at 1028 after just a few minutes wait, there she was in glorious colour, just feet from me with a stickleback and then she caught another. It was dull…………… but who cares………. she is fabulous and I feel sorry for those people who are interested in Kingfishers and haven’t had a close encounter with one……. I have had more than 100!
She stayed, in her glory, six fet away, for long enough for me to take 48 pictures. She has been nicknamed “Beaky” because she has a longer than average one!  I noticed that she has completed her moult and is as pretty as she is going to be. As I have discovered, she doesn’t hang around and left quickly to go about her business somewhere else. Magic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!