On any day in well-wooded parts of southern India you can reasonably expect to see kingfishers, more than once.
They do not only eat fish.
Accordingly, trees overlooking ponds, lakes and rivers are not their only favoured places.
Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken not close to a waterway, in dry-season deciduous forest, Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, Karnataka, at 3.39 pm, 04 March 2023.
South India is home to a number of kingfisher species; pictured is the most common, widespread kind, Halcyon smyrnensis – the white-throated kingfisher.
Eventually, south India’s kingfishers will have a multi-image Pelican Yoga post.