A few minutes ago, a small bird sat on the fence in the front garden. It was extraordinarily colourful and not a bird I’d seen in these parts before.

I took a picture from a distance and just as I did so, it took off – leaving me with an image of a feathery blur. Ain’t that always the way? D’oh!

I zoomed in and the bird was outlined by my touching the image with my finger. A second later, the screen informs me that it is a Sacred Kingfisher with a link to a page that tells me all about it. I didn’t ask for this information – it just appeared.

Honestly, the photo is not of the highest quality and the fact that it knew it was a bird would have been impressive enough.

At this point I can hear some readers going “snort! That’s been there since 2020, grandad!” Well I don’t care…I am impressed that my phone can do this.