730am-930am,weather,light patchy cloud,warm,light southwest.
Brookland lake - Mute Swan 4,Cormorant 1.

Abbey Mead lake - 100 Coot,6 Moorhen,2 G C Grebe,8 Tufted Duck,4 Mallard and 6 Gadwall.
4 Chiffchaffs,4 Bullfinch,2 Jays and 1 G S Woodpecker and 2 Cett1`s were also noted.

River,low - 21 Mallard,12 Heron,4 Cormorants,30 B h Gulls and 1 L B B Gull.

Railway lake - 27 Tufted Duck,20 Coot,1 Mute Swan and 1 G C Grebe.

Stream Side lake - 8 Canada Geese,2 Cormorant,20 Coot,1 Mute Swan and 2 Mallard.

Tesco lake - 8 Mute Swan,50 Coot,14 Mallard,3 Cormorant,1 Canada Goose and 6 Greylag.

Johnsons lake - 10 Tufted Duck,47 Canada Geese,65 Greylag,2 Mute Swan,25 Coot and 2 Mallard.

As I was walking through the east scrub,which was quite,two Greylag flocks passed over heading southeast,one was of about 100 birds and the other of 46.The last flock contained an all white Goose,which I suspect is a domestic white Goose type.This may have been one of two white Geese I saw going down into fields at Upper Halling on August 27th.

During the early afternoon I had a quick look at Halling Common,as to be expected it was rather quite,birds noted were - 21 Jackdaws in one of the meadows,30 Meadow Pipits and 4 Reed Buntings on the salt marsh,5 Swallows and 1 Lapwing which flew south and a Redshank along the river,the river was high.

September 7th 1983.Hawthorns,east bank of Abbey Mead,ringing,730am-10am,clear at first,cloudy later,northwest.
Birds caught - Blue Tit 2,Reed Bunting 2,Reed Warbler 6,Robin 2,Lesser Whitethroat 3,Sedge Warbler 1,Garden Warbler 1,Wren 1,Blackcap 2.
Six Green Sandpipers were present along the river in the area of Eccles Island.

Sandwich Bay,September 5th.

I spent the morning and early afternoon ringing at Sandwich,there was another good catch of about 90 birds,which I was not expecting as the night sky had been clear.Most of the catch was made up by Blackcaps,a Grasshopper warbler was probably the best catch and unusually for this species was caught in the Helgoland trap.

New Hythe,September 4th.

I went back to the lakes during the afternoon for a quick visit.I saw a photo opportunity with a Kingfisher on the Stream side lake,only thing was it was on the far bank.As I was making my way around, I was half expecting it to have gone by the time I had got there.However my luck was in,it was still there.My luck then changed, just as I was ready to shoot,the sun went behind a cloud,hence the rather dull photo.Of course just as the bird flew off the sun reappeared.