Kingfisher Alert

Today morning I spotted a beautiful brown and blue winged Kingfisher (Halcyon Smyrnensis -thanks Friendly Neighbor) fiddling around near my garden around the lotus pond. I had long suspected that my guppy population in the lotus pond was declining and the fat big fishes seemed to be disappearing. Click on the picture below to get a larger image - the Kingfisher is sitting on the fence right above the lotus pond and to the right of the Bottlebrush and the Curry Leaf tree.





Now I am sure the Kingfisher has been snacking on my guppies - the lotus pond is quite shallow and its like shooting fish in a barrel so to speak. Here's another view of my winged guest - before I could take another shot from outside the window bars, it stretched it gorgeous blue wings rimmed with brown and black and took off. I am sure he will return.




But now I have to do something for the guppies - I guess increasing the leaf cover in the lotus pond so that the fish can hide more effectively could be one solution. I think taking a census count and attaching an RFID to each fish and monitoring and tracking them on my Blackberry might be another solution - Oh there goes my wife - I think she is calling up the mental asylum to check for vacancies :-)


There are many other beautiful birds around where I live, maybe I should do a post on the birds of the garden. However getting pictures of the birds will need a lot of patience so I guess I will have to collect the pictures over a period of time.