Kingfisher(a couple)

This is the third installment in a series.

After the couple completed the nest hole that is cave around 80cm, they copulate.

Then, the female lays several eggs although based on the environment of small fish baits.

Kingfisher(a couple)

This is the second installment in a series.

As I described before, this acts in Japan ,has said the courtship feeding, kyu-ai-kyu-ji.

You can see a small hole over hanging bluff, this is a kingfisher's nesting.
This nesting hole estimated 1.1m from a surface of the water  would be submerged due to heavy rain in May .Even if submergence is avoided, when a chick leaves the nest, to eat this chick, a snake invades a nest. I have seen these seen  many times. This is natural.
                                       
This nesting over shell mound hanging bluff , close to my house last year. 

Kingfisher(a couple)

When it comes spring, most of kingfisher makes a couple. And after that, the male is capturing small

fish of the bait so many times and gives this the female. This act is called the courtship feeding.

If the couple is continuing to good relation, they begin to dig a nesting hole in over hanging bluff at same time.