PhotoFeed Contest - Wildlife Photography #31

It's my entry for the #photofeed contest by @photofeed, for the wildlife theme .

🦉 The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

📚 Alcedo - alcedinis, alcyon, or halcedo, halcedinis (lat.) kingfisher; word "hals" in ancient Greek language meant "sea", along with the word thalassa. According to ancient Greek mythology Alcyone (Alcyone), the daughter of the wind god Eol, was the wife of Keix, who drowned due to the wrath of the gods. Alcyone, out of grief, threw herself into the sea, and also died. The gods had mercy and turned the spouses into kingfishers. Looking for her husband, Alcyone calls all the time “Keix! Keix!" and dives, trying to find him in the sea. Alcyone days - two weeks of calm weather around the day winter solstice. During these days, Eol pacified the winds so that Alcyone, in the form of a kingfisher, could hatch chicks in her nest floating on the waves.
📚 atthis - (ancient Greek mythology) Attis, a divine youth of extraordinary beauty

In my city, on the very outskirts, there is a small forest near the river bank. There is one interesting place there, it is a ravine in which a small stream flows. It is in this place that these birds of extraordinary beauty nest every year.

Every year I meet here a couple, a male and a female. But for this I need to hide in the bushes that grow in this ravine and wait for the birds. Usually in May, the female is always here, and the male fishes on the river, then he flies to feed her.