Belted Kingfisher: First time I have encountered this bird. I was in Pueblo State park, Colorado and saw a medium sized bird move from one tree to another about 50 feet. When looking...

howlynn Loc: pueblo west, co

First time I have encountered this bird. I was in Pueblo State park, Colorado and saw a medium
sized bird move from one tree to another about 50 feet. When looking at this bird with
binoculars I realized that this was a kingfisher. I got in a few shots before the last one
with the kingfisher moving to another tree quite far away.

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photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

howlynn wrote:

First time I have encountered this bird. I was in Pueblo State park, Colorado and saw a medium
sized bird move from one tree to another about 50 feet. When looking at this bird with
binoculars I realized that this was a kingfisher. I got in a few shots before I the last one
with kingfisher moving to another tree quite far away.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Very nice shots or a nice-looking bird.

howlynn Loc: pueblo west, co

photophile wrote:

Thank you Karin

howlynn Loc: pueblo west, co

jerryc41 wrote:

Very nice shots or a nice-looking bird.

Thank you Jerry, after reading up on this kingfisher I think it
is a female. The female kingfisher has more color than the male,
is this correct ?

phv Loc: Goleta, California

Love kingfishers!

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Very shy, hard to photograph bird. Nice job.

howlynn Loc: pueblo west, co

phv wrote:

Love kingfishers!

Thank you PHV

howlynn Loc: pueblo west, co

kpmac wrote:

Very shy, hard to photograph bird. Nice job.

Thank you Ken. Went back early this morning and got some
shots of the male and female kingfisher (not together).

howlynn Loc: pueblo west, co

I took this a day after the others, this is the male.
The male has no rufous coloring.

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gregoryd45 Loc: Fakahatchee Strand

howlynn wrote:

First time I have encountered this bird. I was in Pueblo State park, Colorado and saw a medium
sized bird move from one tree to another about 50 feet. When looking at this bird with
binoculars I realized that this was a kingfisher. I got in a few shots before the last one
with the kingfisher moving to another tree quite far away.

Very nice, howlynn

Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia

howlynn wrote:

First time I have encountered this bird. I was in Pueblo State park, Colorado and saw a medium
sized bird move from one tree to another about 50 feet. When looking at this bird with
binoculars I realized that this was a kingfisher. I got in a few shots before the last one
with the kingfisher moving to another tree quite far away.

Very nice, Howlynn!

howlynn Loc: pueblo west, co

Swamp-Cork wrote:

Very nice, Howlynn!

Thank you for taking a look Swamp-Cork

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

howlynn wrote:

First time I have encountered this bird. I was in Pueblo State park, Colorado and saw a medium
sized bird move from one tree to another about 50 feet. When looking at this bird with
binoculars I realized that this was a kingfisher. I got in a few shots before the last one
with the kingfisher moving to another tree quite far away.

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

I have only seen one in my area and it was raiding a fishing marina's herring tank. The picture I got of it was through a fence and at too slow of a camera speed so the picture was blurry.