Am I not lucky?

It flashed across the canal,
like something fired
from a psychedelic starting gun:
Azure, orange and metalled aqua,
there, then gone,
in a millipede of a second.
 
I've often seen kingfishers on the canal, and I think this is the fourth time I've got a shot. If I see a wee bird landing on the canal bank, my kingisher antennae goes up. This one allowed me to change my camera lens, but once I started clicking, it was always looking straight at me, and then it flew off. (Extra photo.) I have to love them.

PS The canal was frozen over so this wee chap had a problem.
PPS I used a digital filter to bring out the shape of the bird.