“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” -Elliott Erwitt
The crested kingfisher inhabits fast-flowing streams and rivers in the Himalayas. They perch on a vantage point overlooking a stream like a branch or a cable or a boulder in the stream. Once its quarry is sighted it dives into the water with minimal splash emerging out the next moment with a fish in its dagger shaped bill.
Like other kingfishers they are cavity nesters and their nest is a hole excavated in a vertical mud bank along the stream.
Crested kingfisher
Himalayan Pied Kingfisher
(Megaceryle lugubris)
Sony A77II
Tamron 150-600
f/6.3, 1/640s, ISO 320, 560mm
Kedarnath WLS, Mandal, (India)
May 2019