Subject: [Tweeters] How does a Common Kingfisher fish on a frozen lake?
Date: Sep 24 14:08:19 2009
From: Kevin Purcell - kevinpurcell at pobox.com


The Daily Mail is not known for it's scientific reporting (it's called
the Daily Heil by some given its conservative outlook) but the photos
from a Feb 2009 article are stunning.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1133589/Dinner-It-8217-s-fast-food-deep-freeze.html

As a sense of scale the Common Kingfisher is about half the length of
a Belted Kingfisher. It's common across northern Europe.

I've not see them before and they're not fully credited but were taken
in Land Hessen, Germany. A little research seems to credit them to
Manfred and Gisela Delpho at delpho.de. There are plenty more on that
site.

http://www.delpho.de/english/kingfisher-1.htm
--
Kevin Purcell
kevinpurcell at pobox.com
twitter: at kevinpurcell



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20090924/996de72e/attachment.htm