TWO KINGFISHERS!!!

For the first time in a few months I saw a kingfisher this afternoon and it surprised me by staying on a lilac branch overhanging the moat despite the fact I was only about twenty feet away (without my camera of course). I stood motionless and watch for maybe a minute or so when to my astonishment a second kingfisher joined it on the branch. This is a first for me. They were facing opposite directions so I was able to see the unique blue of the back of the first bird next to the orangy red of the breast of the second. All at once they set off low over the water at speed - two brilliant blue flashes against the murky brown of the moat.