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I became completely obsessed with them when I was seven. I have no idea why, I'm fairly

obsessive person. And so all of my spare time as a teenager was spent sitting in my blind,

making mostly, in fact, all useless photographs of Kingfisher. What if your superpower was

that you could watch an animal for hours on end? You never get bored. In fact, the longer

you watched, the greater your concentration became. That's what happened to National Geographic

Photographer Charlie Hamilton James. They dive into the water and catch fish, but you know,

Britain is a fairly drab place most of the time. It has a drab selection of birds. I mean,

there's some wonderful birds. I don't know. I don't know if they're little. But the Kingfisher

is like a tropical bird because it's so bright and stunning. Kingfisher's, these bright

blue birds change color in their life, from an iridescent blue to a glistening green.

It's actually not blue in the sense that there is no blue pigment in birds. It's the way

their feathers are structured and the oils in them which reflect blue light and absorbs

other wavelengths. Oh really? Yeah. So Kingfisher's aren't at, you know, they're not pigmented

blue. So they're an almost electric blue. So they go from, you know, from black to green

to turquoise to navy depending on how the light's hitting them.

And Charlie could watch them from a riverbank in Bristol, England until the rest of the

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