Hi Danny,
First, I do envy the Kingfisher captures... guess we'll have to try walking the banks of the Meramec to find one sometime, 'cause we don't serve little fish here in the backyard and they just don't visit us here. ;)
These are both very nice detailed images with good color. Made nicer by the captured fish. I think I prefer this 2nd one (despite the ususual and expressive pose in
your first post), mainly because both tails are more sharply in focus here (the bird's and the fish's).
While the overall exposure looks very good, there's some (perhaps unavoidable) over-exposure in the white collar... Any detail there recoverable from the RAW could make this even nicer.
Both real pretty shots,
Kenn