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Kingfishers are wonderful. In flight all you have is your brain asking 'Did I really see that?',
as the flash of blue fades from your retina.I've only seen one, once, along the River Pinn along the northern edge of Ruislip Golf Course.
It was 6 or so weeks after the June 23rd 2016 floods. The Kingfisher had been forced to hunt upstream, as the flood waters had flushed all the small fish down through Yiewsley into the River Colne, thence into the Thames at Staines.We continue to ask the EA for any flood alleviation works to include 'dead end' meanders to provide refuges for our aquatic life to shelter in, the next time we have a flood.
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Not forgetting the pesky Glis glis that Rothschild let loose in Tring that established in the wild too. Saw the local kingfisher the other week and it stops me in my tracks every time.
Anyway, I like Ruislip too (grew up not far from there)...taken the lad to the Lido beach thing on more than one occasion.