I kept hoping to see a kingfisher or some equally provocative bird, but none showed up.

She was to be seen no more often than you will see a kingfisher when you watch for it under a willow.

Later in the day, one of the companions saw a kingfisher.

At last he saw a kingfisher, who was sitting on a limb overhanging the water.

Quite a few people in this country will tell you they have never seen a kingfisher.

It's a fine morning of summer, and I saw a kingfisher across the watermeadows coming along.

But she has never seen a kingfisher.

But Oswald had seen a kingfisher by the wood, and he said it was an ibis, so this was even.

"I saw a kingfisher," I said.