Male kingfisher by one of the pools in the nature reserve section of the i54 industrial estate, seen on a sunny, frosty morning.
The bird kept flitting from perch to perch surveying the pool, occasionally diving into the water. I didn’t seem fazed by our presence on the footpath; a dog walker and a jogger had also recently passed by.
The first three pictures in the set were the last taken. It gave the closest views just as we were about to go. All the other shots were taken when it was further away, on a day when I only had a medium-telephoto lens. Even when it’s only a tiny part of the image, the distinctive bright colours make identification certain.