A wild and free male kingfisher from my local river ,this is what they call the gift were the male when courting the female passes a freshly caught fish ,I have been watching this site for a number of years and this shot was just a lucky result on a day were I just set up to observe , when the male landed is pose with the fish just alerted me in something different was going to happen, and as you can see in the background the female is coming in to accept the gift ,I do have shots of the male passing the fish and the female accepting ,this pair did bond but lost the brood three weeks in to feeding chicks were the river flooded the nest after 24 hrs of heavy rain ...canon 1d mkiv 300mm at f4 1/320 sec iso 800 -1/3ev