WE all like a story with a happy ending.

Reader Trevor Jones and his wife heard a bang on the French window to their lounge and on closer inspection found a kingfisher lying stunned on the block paving outside.

Happily, after a short while, one of our most beautiful native birds recovered and flew off.

"We are 100 metres from the nearest stream so why it picked our garden I don't know," said Trevor. "We don't even have a pond."