The last return to my 2021 lockdown nature diary.
10/3/2021
Kingfisher – crossing the bridge before Folly Bridge. We stopped to look at the garden made on one of the piers of the river channel-straddling house. Then the kingfisher flashed across, a contrast with the dark water & the leaves.
Like light reflected from a gem. A glimpse of its orange belly. It perched in the tree that hangs down over the water, visible & invisible as my eyes picked up the colour in the frame of the twigs, then lost it again. I saw the movement, the white bib. the gleam off the bill. It dived, dropping hard into the water then showering up, higher into the branches.
Did it catch anything? Perhaps. It stayed there until we walked on.
Open Field 