This female Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle
americana was on the Frio River at the Halff
Brothers Ranch low water crossing on February 06, 2005;
it is the most confiding one I've ever come across, tolerating
a group of admiring birders at less than 20 feet!; note the mud
on its bill-tip - she must be excavating a nest burrow in the
riverbank nearby:
