Hi Ken,

Bumped into one of your volunteers last Saturday as he cut back bracken etc from the stream. He was very helpful in explaining what your group is about and I hope to make contact at your convenience.

I know the area pretty well and spend a lot of summer days following paths that lead from Herrington Burn over to Durham Cricket Club.
Best regards,

Mark (New Herrington).

Last week on a walk through the woods I spotted what appeared to be a kingfisher in the Burn about a quater of a mile downstream of the Floaters bridge.A quick trip home for a pair of waders and someone to watch my back as the water was well up and it was confirmed as a dead bird. Seems to be a young bird possibly this years.The good news is that our regular Kingfishers were duly found further downstream and seem to be doing really well. James now has a couple of Kingfisher feathers in his bird book.

My son James (age 3) today planted 6 saplings down the plantation. We collected the seeds in the autumn and planted them out. Today 3 oak and 3 horse chestnut joined the rest of the young trees down there. Hopefully in a few years James will be taking his children down to collect conkers and acorns from these trees.

Walking through the woods at the weekend ,i met 2 gentlemen with a camra
i asked if they had seen the King fisher they then went onto show me a photograth of the kingfisher they had taken a few minutes earlier .i should have got more details ,They have taken photgraphs in the
area for 10 yrs
of wildlife