These amazing pictures were captured in Scotland and show a kingfisher plunging into a stream to catch its dinner. /CFP Photo

Former homicide detective Ray Cooper waited patiently for hours in order to get the perfect shot of the bird as it hunted small fish in the town of Kirkcudbright. /CFP Photo

The kingfisher was made to dive into a tank placed in one of the shallow streams in which the birds hunt. /CFP Photo

The tank contained its preferred diet of minnows and stickleback fish while Ray Cooper watched from a special photographic hideout nearby. /CFP Photo