On their way the blue kingfisher flashed by, chuckling harshly deep down in his throat.
Mrs. Kingfisher and I will both be very busy now catching minnows for those blue babies of ours.
With another chuckle and rattle the kingfisher flew away to his fishing station over the pond.
The kingfisher urged the matter, asking for a favourable decision, saying, "Come, do take pity on him and restore him to life.
The kingfisher said "I go," and flew swiftly out from the lodge and up the river to Nakiskat, the Nahurak lodge near Lone Tree.
And the kingfisher was a messenger and errand man for the Nahurak council.
So the Nahurak here at Nakiskat talked over the matter, but at last they said to the kingfisher "We are unable to decide.
Then the kingfisher flew to the lodge at Tsuraspako, then to Kitsawitsak, and at last to Pahua, and at each place the Nahurak council considered the matter carefully and talked about it, but at each place the same answer was given.
The kingfisher sat quite quiet on his bough, and listened with great attention.
She hastened away up the brook, and after searching for a while, she found the kingfisher sitting on a bough overhanging the stream.
The kingfisher sat still for another moment as if in deep reflection; then he made a dart downwards into the water, dived, brought up a fish, and glided with it in his beak round a turn of the stream and disappeared.
She felt quite sure that she would have to go to the specialist, because the kingfisher had told her to do exactly what she always did.
I was interested to see whether the kingfisher would consider this a sufficient meal, or whether he would immediately resume his fishing operations.
The moment he had departed the kingfisher renewed his piscatorial efforts and took up a position about twenty feet above the water almost directly over the spot where the ducks were floating.
As regards pace on the wing the kingfisheris no match for the tern.
I waited on for about half an hour, expecting to see the kingfisher reappear, but was disappointed.
Of this advantage the kingfisher availed itself to the full, so that the contest waxed fast and furious, the combatants moving in a series of curves, zigzags, circles, and other geometrical figures.
After a little manoeuvring the kingfisher got the frog in the desired position, and, having held it thus for a few seconds, swallowed it.
Then the kingfisher remained squatting on the bank for a couple of minutes looking pensive.
In a few seconds the kingfisher flew to a large stake projecting from the water and squatted there, cocking up his tail at frequent intervals.
While he was thus employed a pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) appeared on the scene and took up a position on one of three neem trees that grew beside the tank.
Seeing that he would never be able to enjoy the fruits of his prowess while he remained at the tank, the kingfisher changed his tactics and flew right away, disappearing behind some trees, with the tern in pursuit.
When the kingfisher was hovering in the air, the tern approached and looked as though he were going to attack him.
After the tern had been fishing for a couple of minutes the kingfisher resumed operations and again sought the neighbourhood of the ducks.
But theKingfisher often remains on the coast during open winters, and may therefore be considered one of our winter-birds.
So that the keen plaintive whistle of a kingfisher was almost startling.
A streak of blue shot up it between the banks, and a shrill pipe came back as the kingfisher hastened away.
The kingfisher was there ahead of us with his loud clicking reel.
The kingfisher sees them as he shoots through the barrel of the culvert.
The woman wondered greatly at the words of the Kingfisher and the Sea-Gull.
The Pool was pure as crystal, and amidst the broad green leaves the silver chalices of the water-lilies swam upon the surface, where the herons waded, and the gorgeous kingfisher darted across the glassy mirror.
I crept into the tunnel, which was originally made by a tiny animal, the water-shrew, and which had been enlarged by the Kingfisherto suit the size of the nest.
I have carried every thing home to my family, and I am now as empty as a drum,' said the Kingfisher in an aggrieved tone, and then he resumed his watch.
Then he flew away, and I scrambled after him as fast as I could, for I was curious to see how Madame Kingfisher and the babies fared.
Upon this the Kingfisher pounced at me; but I dodged this way and that, and a fine race we had of it.
And his must be a mean and sordid soul who would grudge the kingfisher his meed of beauty--even supposing that so rare a bird can do any appreciable amount of harm.
The commonest bird is a kingfisher (Dacelo Iagoensis), which tamely sits on the branches of the castor-oil plant, and thence darts on grasshoppers and lizards.
One is a small kingfisher (Ceryle Americana); it has a longer tail than the European species, and hence does not sit in so stiff and upright a position.
Nil-kunt is also sometimes applied to the bird kingfisher by Europeans; but this is erroneous.
A desirable resting-place certainly; cool and shadowy, and haunted by many a kingfisher busy among the shoals of silvery fishlets in the still water.
As the train approached the river a kingfisher started from the bank and flew along the river for nearly a mile.
The dipper and kingfisher darted by the door, and those who drank in the quiet and pastoral peace of Duddon never forgot it.
Our principal enemies were dispersed: the gulls sought worms in the ploughed uplands; the kingfisher and the solitary heron flew away to the smaller streams, where the less turbid water permitted them to see their prey.
Less likely birds that have occurred in Britain are the belted kingfisher and American yellow-billed cuckoo.
For breeding, the kingfisher either drills a hole for itself or occupies that deserted by some small rodent.
And the kingfisher is a poacher in another respect.
The eggs of the kingfisher are perhaps the most beautiful of all.
Then the Kingfisher remembered her errand, and how carelessly she had performed it.
Horribly frightened at her danger, the Kingfisher turned once more, but this time toward the rolling waters which covered the earth.
Already by sad experience the Kingfisher had felt the force of the sun's heat, while the Eagle and the Wren, in the famous flight which they had taken together, had learned the same thing.
The Kingfisher was fresh and vigorous, and her wings were strong and powerful, for she had been resting long days in the quiet ark, eating the provisions which Father Noah had thoughtfully prepared for his many guests.
The American Kingfisher is gray, but her cousin of Europe is a bird of brilliant azure with a breast of rusty red.
Therefore it must have been the foreign Kingfisher who was forgetful, as you shall hear.
Then the ark, blown hither and thither by the same storm which had driven the Kingfisher to fly upward into the ether-blue, had drifted far and far to Mount Ararat, where it ran aground.
Halcyone was become a Kingfisher, the first Kingfisher who ever flew lamenting above the waters of the world.
So the Kingfisher fluttered in with the other birds and animals, a strange company!
When Father Noah hastened to build his ark, inviting the animals and birds to take refuge with him, the Kingfisher herself was glad to go aboard.
The kingfisher flew before us, the pigeon woodpecker was seen and heard, and nuthatches and chickadees close at hand.
Distributional and evolutionary history of thekingfisher genus Ceyx in Malaysia.
I saw this kingfisher once along the Apas River at Quoin Hill and again along the beach at Siamil Island.
This kingfisherwas netted near a small stream in the deep primary forest.
This was what I shall call my first drawing actually from nature, for even the eye of the Kingfisher was as if full of life whenever I pressed the lids aside with my finger.
I was off to the creek, and shot the firstKingfisher I met.
Halcyon days" is used proverbially, but the Kingfisher had another very useful trait.
If a dead Kingfisher were hung up by a cord, it would point its beak to the quarter whence the wind blew.
I had the pleasure of seeing a little green Kingfisher perched close to me for a few minutes; but the instant his quick eye espied me, he dashed off with a shrill squeak, almost touching the water.
The Kingfisher A kingfisher sat on a flagpole slim, And watched for a fish till his eye was dim.
The ravine of the stream was covered with fine tall timber, to which the kingfisher resorted.
The kingfisher was common; the swallows had not yet taken their flight, and in some places the sandpiper was seen upon the bank.
Go to the Kingfisher and tell him what danger we are in.
Then the Father Hawk told the Kingfisher what the hunters planned to do.
Midnight came and the Kingfisher was now very tired.
As they came out they said: "Half the night a Kingfisher kept putting out our fires.
The Kingfisher has been working for hours, and now he is very tired.
The Mother Hawk noticed this and said to her mate: "The Kingfisher is tired out.
As often as a fire was made, theKingfisher put it out.
Then the Kingfisher and the Turtle came up, and the Hawks said: "You have saved us.
Go and ask the Turtle to help us so that the Kingfisher may have a rest.
So the Father Hawk flew back to his nest, and the Kingfisher flew to the island and went into the lake near the place where the fire was burning.
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