Kingfishers

Anyone else have some King fishers to offer? Interesting how the female and male Giant Kingfishers exchange the position of the rufous marking on belly / chest. The pied is reputed to be the best fisher of them all - we watch them for hours - they tirelessly hover and dive in the river near us and have become firm favourites.
The brown hooded is a ground feeder - insects etc.

Very nice. You have some interesting looking kingfishers over there.

I love Kingfishers... a challenging bird to shoot! It's like they laugh at you as they fly away!!!

Beautiful species you have! I love kingfishers too - unfortunately we only have 1 species in my area and they are quite difficult to approach. Despite hunting for them aggressively last year, I bet my total elapsed time watching them didn't amount to more than half an hour.

I was just watching a belted kingfisher a little while ago. Very tuff to get close too. I saw a few in South Africa a couple years ago that were gorgeous. Had a beautiful pied kingfisher within a few feet of me, but it took off before I was able to get a photo. I can still picture it in my mind though. :)

I was in Egpyt for several weeks and found the Pied kingfisher very friendly. The belted is VERY shy...

We are fortunate to have 10 species of Kingfisher in our region. Many are very difficult to get to or not represented close by. They are: Giant, Pied, Half-collared,Malachite, African Pygmy, Woodland, Mangrove, Brown-Hooded, Grey-Headed, and Striped. I'll scratch out a few more pics and post.

Awesome images Dennis!