Belted Kingfisher

Dale Gardner

You might wonder why I took such a close-up of this Belted Kingfisher. Actually, I had no choice. My wife and I were standing along a towpath, looking through the trees at the river. This Belted Kingfisher kept flying up and down the river, squawking like crazy. I said to my wife, “I wish I could get a picture of that bird.” She said, “You are never going to get a picture of that.” A little while longer, that Belted Kingfisher landed directly in front of me, so close that this is the most distant picture I could take since I had my 700mm lens on my camera.

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