I'm in east London, down a bit from the aforementioned Forest Gate, not quite so close to Wanstead Flats as that.. in fact, I'm a lot closer to the Great Northern Outfall Sewer (or 'Greenway' as they call it now) than I am to Wanstead Flats.

That's what makes it all the more remarkable - although logically, if the birds only have gardens to breed in, it is more likely that the human inhabitants will see them more often, than if they lived in the corner of a field in rural Dorset.

But I do miss the house martins we used to get every year when I was a child...

LTS