Un martin pêcheur au bord du Rhône

On my bike ride to work this morning as I passed the small reed bed in front of the Piscine du Rhône I saw a kingfisher – not five feet from all the bicycles whizzing past.

At first I thought it must be a model so calmly was it sitting there.

Then it dived into the river and I stopped to take a photo.

Of course birds don’t mind bikes flying past but as soon as you stop to photograph them they get the jitters.

So these are my best photos of le martin pêcheur taken with my phone.