A flash of bright metallic blue that can only be a Kingfisher

Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/gJc71E5eu0b back out on the gravel bike for today usualish route to Birmingham out over Church Hill then for a change picking up the canal at Stone Cross till the closed section while repairs are carried out to the embankment so over Tower Hill then back on at Perry Barr Lock Flight where a Kingfisher flashed by unmistakable flash of bright metallic blue onward to Spaghetti and up the Aston Lock Flight into town ten minutes break and it's time to head back via Telfords Main Line slight detour around Edgbaston Reservoir which is full to the brim first time for ages back onto the canal to Dudley Port and through the tunnel underneath both the canal and railway around Sheepwash to Great Bridge onto the Walsall Canal and home 

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