New Hythe,August 27th.

Weather,overcast,grey,southwest,730am-9am.Walked from the Brookland car-park,along the river path,passing the sunken marsh and Abbey Mead,over the rail,past the Railway Lake and back down the Mill Stream path.Brookland lake was very quite,just 2 Mute Swan,1 Cormorant and several B h Gulls.On reaching the sunken marsh 2 Cetti`s called (they have been quite for a while) 6 Pheasants were put up from the path and 11 Cormorants were roosting on one of the Pylons.Abbey Mead has a growth of surface weed and has pulled in 100 Coot,2 G C Grebes and 1 Little were also present along with 2 adult and 2 young Mute Swan.On the Railway lake birds seen were-25 Coot,11 Tufted Duck,2 Mallard and 1 G C Grebe.The Streamside lake held,2 adult and 4 young G C Grebe,20 Coot and 15 B h Gull.By recent standards a very quite walk,very few small birds were seen.