Fish Smacking By KIngfisher - Click image to view larger!

Thanks for viewing/comments! I've heard of this before but it's my first viewing of this

behavior. Once the KF gets a good size fish he would slam it against the tree, left,

right, right, left .. a few times. In this instance, he actually broke the fish head doing

that before swallow that fish down the hatch.

Thanks Dimitris! Greetings from SoCal!  :-)

Great catch and story.  Is that a female bird?  My wife has to sometimes "smack" me around to get my attention ;-)... Mike

Thanks Mr. Mancil!  LOL, this one is a guy (ony one blue band on the chest, girl has a blue band and a brown band below the blue band) .  You wife only smack you .. my wife use the high heels /jk