National Museum's Kingfishers Sunday 20 January 2008 I'm definitely suffering from a long run of birds! This time it's a pair of Collared Kingfishers (Halcyon chloris) apparently looking for a nesting site. I spotted them on my way to Wesley one morning and came back the next week with gear to shoot them:

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I initially thought that they were nesting, but it turned out that they were visiting one hole the first day but another hole the next: I also managed to get a shot of one of them making off with what appears to be a worm from the museum lawn:

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While photographing the kingfishers, I spotted a White-Bellied Sea-Eagle in the distance - common enough around here. Then another raptor flew by...

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