Sir, – Having read Michael Viney's article on our colourful kingfishers ("Everyone remembers their first kingfisher", Weekender, April 24th), I was hoping to see one during my three-hour walk along the bank of the lovely and calming Barrow river, having started northwards from Graiguenamanagh. Sadly, I was not rewarded with a single sighting.
However, also neither was there a sighting of a single piece of litter along the way.
Some absences can be rewarding. – Yours, etc,
HUGH McELROY,
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Killaspy,
Co Kilkenny.