I have spent the last couple of days staking out kingfishers on my local brook.  Yesterday morning, I planted an enticing perch in the mud  and then returned to set up the camera just down stream from it.  I sat under some camouflage material that covered both me and the camera equipment  After a couple of hours, cold and stiffness had set in so I came away with no success (yet).  I returned later that day  for the last hour and half  for another try but again without any success. I am not to be deterred though and by 10 this morning, I was back for another try.  I was massively encouraged  when I got there because on and beneath the branch, three separate lots of white droppings stood out like a beacon, a sure sign that a Kingfisher had used my perch. So, it's just a matter of time and patience before I get a nice photograph of the resident Kingfisher to add to the hundreds and hundreds of close up Kingfisher photographs that I have taken there previously.  It's always exciting to speculate about the "resident", male or females, adult or juvenile? Hopefully, I will have the answer in the next day or so. In the meantime, here are photographs of Kingfishers from previous years and taken from this very spot.