Out at the Kingfisher nest site this evening it appeared to me that the youngsters that I had seen only a couple of days ago have now been driven from the territory. I had only been in the hide for a matter of minutes when I heard my first Kingfisher of the session but the dog walkers were so disturbing, I can hardly believe that there is a Kingfisher nest at this location. Eventually it went quiet, there wasn't a dog in sight and then I heard a Kingfisher before I saw it, right opposite and just feet from the nest hole. It was the male and he was perched on the mud "boulders" that had tumbled in to the water. From time to time he called, I took this to be a call to let the female, sitting on eggs in the burrow, know that he was there. I had it in focus through my camera and after a second or two it flew up on to the the top of the bank. It made a dive but it wasn't successful the first time but on the next dive he was and the catch was a large juicy minnow.
I wondered what was going to happen, was the fish going to be fed to youngsters, taken in to the nest or fed to a female somewhere close by? It was a slightly disappointing outcome because he simple ate it!

As it happened I didn't see any comings and goings from the nest tonight, I am assuming that the female stayed in the nest sat on her eggs for the entire 2 hours that I watched.