Mr T sees kingfishers around our house all the times, darting across from one river bank to the other. He also claims that he has seen mermaids in the river but I will not believe that! Anyhow, I have become quite desperate to spot a kingfisher myself, not that I have never seen one before because I have on several occasions but that was in East Africa and it would be much more exciting to spot them here on my doorstep!
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| Malachite kingfisher, Lake Ziway, Ethiopia |
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| Pied kingfisher, Lake Victoria, Uganda |
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| Giant kingfisher, Lake Victoria, Uganda |
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| Woodland kingfisher, Lake Victoria, Uganda |
So I got really excited yesterday when I spotted a bird with irisdescent plumage sat on a tree in our garden and sneaked out with a camera to try and take a picture of it. I was hoping for a kingfisher but the zoom on my camera revealed this:
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| Nuthatch, River Aare, Switzerland |
Moral of the story (if there is one...): All that glitters isn't gold...Elusive kingfishers, I'll be back!
1 comment:
Let me know when you ever sight a kingfisher here!
I like Kingfishers myself. Not often are there blue birds in nature. I wonder if there ever will be a blue cat one day :D
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