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Quirky moments (#11 in series: white-throated kingfisher, with musical bonus)

 

 

 

Members of the kingfisher family are typically very confident; these predatory birds are not much preyed-upon.

Fish are not invariably their primary prey, and not all kingfishers live near rivers or lakes.

Pictured is the most ubiquitous of Asia’s kingfishers, Halcyon smyrnensis – the white-throated kingfisher.

By itself, this perky individual’s demeanour was almost enough to qualify it for inclusion in this series…

Q: so, what was the additional factor?

A: the answer, my friends, was blowin’ in the wind – this kingfisher’s deliciously-ruffled feathers.

Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 3.41 pm, 04 March 2023, in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, Karnataka, India.

Click here to learn more about the white-throated kingfisher.

 

Musical bonus

From Bert Jansch’s 1978 LP Avocet; Bert is composer & guitarist, with Danny Thompson’s double bass, Martin Jenkins’ violin:

Published in Americas and Eurasia and Africa instrumental music music nature and travel photographs