December 27th (New Hythe)

Dull and wet (08:30 - 10:00

Abbey Mead  15 Shoveler  29 Pochard.

Road island lake 1 red-head Goosander  1 Kingfisher.

The drake Scaup has now moved onto the Streamside lake.

December 24th.

             WISHING YOU ALL A MERY CRHISTMAS

                 AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

Its been a funny year.The cold wet spring,had an affect on breeding productivity for many species.Yet for those of us that keep yearly totals its been a good year at New Hythe.Red necked Grebe,Scaup,Great White Egrets,Short eared Owl,Red-rumped Swallow,Goldeneye,White fronted Geese and Hen Harrier helped boost the total.

Siskin and Redpolls remain hard to locate and this autumn/winter Redwing and especially Fieldfare are in very short supply.

December 8th (Brookland lake)

 Scaup and Goldeneye.

November 29th/30th and December 3rd/5th (New Hythe)

 Nice male Scaup,first seen on the 25th.

The last time a Scaup was seen at New Hythe,was three years ago.A female remained  in the area from November 2017 into March 2018.This is the first adult male to be seen,as far as I know since 1998.

On December 3rd,I found a nice male Goldeneye on Brookland lake.The lake now holds cerca 150 Tufted Duck,one Scaup and one Goldeneye.

November 25th (New Hythe)

Bright,but cold,light northerly.

Apart from an increase in Tufted Duck numbers (150 on Brooklands),wildfowl numbers remain low.On Abbey Meads,just 9 Pochard,6 Gadwall and circa 30 Coot.

Along the river I saw - 1 Green Sandpiper  1 Redshank  1 Snipe  30 Lapwing  45 Mallard and circa 55 Teal.Perhaps over the next few days,with the predicted colder weather moving down from the north.This will bring about a change

Redwing numbers also remain low and I have still only seen one Fieldfare.. 

November 17th (Leysdown)

 Six Shorelark and one Snow Bunting (just south of the Neptune café)