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I took this pic at Lake Panic on Sunday afternoon...

I think it is the same bird that i took a pic of about about 3 or 4 posts above...?

I call him "Pied Pecker..." or a cool nickname for him is "Kingklip Kapens"

Here's another pic from Lake Panic Birdhide.....

Low level bridge at Skukuza:

As far as I know, a great many of the fish eating birds and a few other species adopt this method of whacking their prey a good many times before finally eating it.

Balule bridge - Olifants River - Sept 2006

I took this pic yesterday..

Heres a few pic's:

Shingwedzi Causeway.



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I watched these guys fishing for quite a while on my previous visit to Kruger. It was at a seasonal pool close to the Letabariver.

It seems to me they dive into the water and do not fly away straight away when they surface. It seems to me they fall back into the water and then come up again and fly off. I assume the second bounce is to gain momentum to be able to get out of the water. This doesn’t happen every time. Sometimes they fly off after the first bounce out of the water.

The pics I got are not great. It’s only an aim and shoot camera, and it was overcast, and I had to crop them.

beautiful photos everyone the pied kingfisher really is a photogenic bird.
@Skopsie: lovely photos of the bird diving

In April we saw these little guys at Panic bird hide. there were 3 of them and they were just so beautiful

In this little video you see the beautiful Pied Kingfisher very close.

I took this photo in January on the bridge over the Matjulu near Malelane….this guy was a real poser…the photo is full frame. It was sitting on the rail of the bridge and allowed me to slowly creep up till my window was right next to it.
What was nice was that the background was green with the summer colours and it fitted in very well with the green rail of the bridge.

Larger view

These also from Lake Panic in Feb this year.

The first time that I got it right to take a nice picture of a pied.