Thread: An angry Kingfisher

He does look seriously pissed off in the first pic..

Quite often see then around here ( Phuket)- mainly in neglected rubber plantations that have a pond or stream nearby .
A while ago when I was fishing a plantation pond there were a pair of then on a serious gecko / cicada hunt - they must have caught and eaten 20 in half an hour !!
Beautiful birds !

I have a river at the bottom of my garden, overlooking open fields, There are a pair of Kingfishers living down stream,some early mornings in the summer I will go down there when I have finished a night shift and watch the sun come and have been lucky enough to see the birds diving for fish, a beautiful sight.

We also have had Swans and their Cygnets up on the bank,that really used to freak my dogs out,swans are big bastards when they rear up, open there wings and hiss at you, I have had Herons wading for fish,and had a family of 3 of them fly overhead once.

Then you get the Moorhens,ducks and other wild life associated with a healthy river and the fish are amazing, I once caught a Brown Trout, I had no idea what it was till a mate told me.

Glad to see he did not eat it. we have several in our area alos, very nice birds.