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Along the River Otter Mr Burgess tells me the beavers have created wetlands that now host species such as great white egrets and kingfishers.

Volunteers who monitor the site have seen kingfishers for the first time.

Then he gave me the sack of gunpowder that he had acquired in exchange for the kingfisher feathers and walked into the spicers’ district with his arms joyously spread.

A pair of kingfishers have become the earliest to start building a nest ahead of breeding at Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire.

The Wye flows along the English-Welsh border and is home to otters, kingfishers and the endangered Atlantic Salmon.