I have never had such a great opportunity to watch a Kingfisher as I did today, consequently I took full advantage of it.  The reason for this was due to the feeding behaviour of the resident female Kingfisher. Her "patch" is not only reasonable small at the moment, fortunately it is centred around my hide. But what has made it easy to see her is the way she is fishing at the moment. Previously when I have watched Kingfishers feeding  they seem to have a favourite spot where they will dive several times for fish, and remain on the same perch until successful. Feeding is usually an early morning and late evening affair, with opportunistic feeding during the day if an opportunity presents itself. But at this time of year with only 8 hours of daylight, my guess is that Kingfishers need to hunt pretty much the whole day long to get enough food.  This is exactly what "my" Kingfisher wass doing today but in a very sensible fashion.  She was 'working" every part of her territory by fishing for a few minutes, if a dive produced a fish or not, she would then move on twenty feet or so where the process would be repeated. Then when she had got to the extremeties of her territory, she would turn and fly back to the end of her patch, flying quickly a few hundred yards and past me, to eventually pass by me again fishing, in the way that I have described before.  She repeated this behaviour throughout the day fishing constantly. I first saw her at around 9 0'clock and I watched her fishing like this until past 11, and then again from 1 until 3 when the light, in the heavy rain started to fail.  I would estimate that I saw her catch and eat at least 20 fish.  At times the light was almost good enough to get some in-flight shots, I have been trying for ages to acheive what I consider to be the ultimate. The real problem is that the brook at this time of the year is always in a degree of shade.  But, never the less I persevere and one day with a bit of luck I will be successful I hope. But here are some of the pictures that have excited me today.