Kingfisher(Alcedo atthis)

[Mr Smith]

Monday I was fishing at a very secluded spot in Rutland when this  Kingfisher landed next to my peg about six foot away, never been that close to one before and what a beautiful bird :) 

[Mr Smith]

[Robert_Brenchley]

They are indeed. I used to see them on the Thames below Sandford Lock when I was a kid, and one year I found where they were nesting in the side of an old gravel pit.

[Looby Loo]

I had never seen one in this country until recently when I gave up my car and started catching the bus to work.  Now I see them most days (from the top deck), along with Canada geese, grebes, herons, coots and assorted ducks.  Must be the best journey to work ever!