woodland kingfisher

a kingfishers that shows little interest in water and much prefers dry acacia scrub ! Another archive shot....

We saw ... I think it was 6 species of kingfishers. This was the species we saw most of. Makes sense, since we spent most of our week in Kruger pretty far from open water.

Gambia November 2016 with guide Ebou Barry

Over the garden wall.

Another shot of this lovely bird

Taking lunch to its chicks which are nicely housed under my roof.

Nested under our roof last year, often around the garden.

A striking summer visitor to SA with a loud and piercing trill.

Woodland Kingfisher

A striking blue-backed kingfisher with a red-and-black bill ( rarely all-red )

Comon intra-African summer migrant.

Photographed feeding the chicks, one day a small snake the next a lizard and some insects

I took this photo on the grounds of the Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel in Entebbe on the final full day of our African photo safari in Tanzania and Uganda in 2008. This kingfisher species, and the Pied Kingfisher were the two species of kingfishers most commonly seen in our four weeks of...

Woodland Kingfisher

Taken at Sweni Hide, Kruger National Park