Grey Wagtails have fledged young at Abram where the stream comes out of the underground culvert (opposite Abingdon Drive/A58) and there was also a pair at the aqueduct where the brook goes under the canal, at Abram.

Kingfishers - nesting finished in the banking opposite Abingdon Drive when the EA decided to mow all the grass there a few years ago (it had been rank vegetation) - that allowed kids on, who promptly made a den which scared off the birds. They do this kind of thing occasionally. About 10 years ago their contractors went all the way down the Hey Brook, which is within a SSSI, slashing the vegetation back in May, despite my warning them. Goodness knows how many nests must have been lost. I had their ecologist up to look at it and I've never seen such a red face, literally!

whilst a good few gm birders were having tea and bicckies at pennington, i struck out to increase me listing in the wilds of abram, of note 2 redhank 1 shellduck 2 sedge warblers 4 reed bunting all at dover around abram/fields 1 g.s.woodpecker 4 chiffchaff 1 jay and then most of the usual,but added 2 skylark( viridor wood area of abram) all together 30 speices on the list,strangly no kingfisher or greywagtail ,probably posing at the teal hide cheers geoff