The first thing to say is that today is almost unbearably hot, so hot that 10 minutes outside turns you in to a bundle of wet clothes and damp skin.  My thermometer tells me its 37 in the shade but I am not sure of its accuracy.  I put a towel in the freeze box of the fridge earlier and the result was like heaven!  Now I know why tennis players sit like that between ends. But back to the real stuff.  Dinner last night was absolutely excellent, Ravi's Restaurant has meant that standards have been upped even more.  I had a gorgeous grilled Tuna….not tooner as Ravis spells it…. steak with chips and ladies fingers which I believe is also known as okra? It was superb anyway.  

I had a most incredibly fruitful couple of hours with a White throated Kingfisher yesterday afternoon and have taken photographs that have way exceeded any taken of this species by me before. This is a woodland Kingfisher, by that I mean it hunts over land rather than in water.  This one was perched very accommodatingly above a bed of convolvulus which spread out on the edge of the beach for an area the size of a football pitch.  From time to time it would dive down to grab something in the dense growth, probably small land crabs because I have seen them eat crabs on a previous trip. As the sun started to set it's behaviour became more and more intense and I did my utmost not to disturb it.  I have to say that I am thrilled to have had such good success already.

Bee-eaters were also "working" the same little patch but they were feeding as you would expect, on flying insects and having fantastic success. I photographed them with various insects including one with a large moth and another with a bee that I wouldn't have liked to have encountered if it was in a bad mood!

Then, this morning I went back and carried on to try for "that" shot and managed to photograph the food flip which is when they throw the pray in to the air before swallowing.

A late extra to this post.

I put some banana in the garden which I know the Red vented Bulbuls really like, It worked a treat and it was just minutes before a pair came down to take it. A great opportunity for a flight shot.