April 27th (New Hythe)

Bright,SW.

Common Whitethroat  Nightingale and Peregrine.

May 10th and 11th (New Hythe)

Clear and warm,E.

Along the river from Bucket wood,2 Common Sandpipers and a drake Gadwall were seen.

Later during the afternoon Glenn had 3 Common Sands at the Railway lake.

The Peregrine was photographed near Birling.

11th, Along the river from Bucket wood 1 Greenshank  2 Common Sandpipers  1 Kingfisher and a flyover Cuckoo.

A drake Pochard was seen on Abbey Meads during the week.

The Red Kite was photographed not far outside of the area on the 9th.

   

April 30th (Stodmarsh) New Hythe (CATCH UP).

 Clear and very warm

Nightingale (New Hythe) ringed in 2024,back this year in the same territory (PHOTO).

Nightingale NF16731 ringed as a juv at the then Conservation lake on the 15 07 2018 

re trapped on the 05 05 2025 as a (6M) in the East scrub (7years).

Blackcap AZK9828 ringed in the West scrub as a juv M on the 11 Sept 2023

controlled at Swanscombe marshes,Kent on the 25 05 2024 as a 5M and then re trapped again at Swanscombe marshes on the 22 04 2025 as a 6M.

Nightingale TY99475 (3) 01 08 2022 West scrub  re trapped (5M) 05 07 23 East scrub  re trapped East scrub (6M) 06 05 2025.

Went for the Hobbies,but only two were seen and they didn't perform.

Cuckoo 2  Cattle Egret 6  Wood Sands 2  Greenshank 1. Red kite 1 .Nice to see numbers of Teal and Gadwall still present.

On April 30th,there was a reported Turtle Dove and a fly over Osprey in the lakes complex.

April 27th (MEGA at New Hythe)

Whilst walking to the Grasshopper site,I had a Hawfinch fly over (a personal first for New Hythe).Then at 10:20 at the Grasshopper site a PURPLE HERON came over from the west heading towards the Medway. 

By the time I sorted the focus out (set up for the Warbler) it was a back end view).Luckily Jerry was at Bucket wood and watched it loose height and go down into Burham marsh.Where it was seen later in the day feeding along one of the ditches,in the meadow just north of Burham church.

         

April 26th (New Hythe)

 A Grasshopper Warbler first found on the 25th,was still present today.

Also seen  today were 3-4 Hobbies,a Cuckoo,lesser White and Sedge Warbler in the Sunken marsh and along the river from Bucket wood,3 Common Sandpipers and 2 Swifts were seen.

PHOTOS  Nightingale  Hobby  Grasshopper Warbler  Nightingale.

Another Sedge was singing by the fishermen's hut at Brookland lake.   

April 18th,21st and 22nd (New Hythe)

This morning a Cuckoo was roaming all over the Park and a Garden Warbler was heard in the East scrub.

During the afternoon three Hobbies were seen hawking high over the Streamside lake.

On the 21st,one of the Dipping pond Nightingales was caught which already had a ring.

Ringed as a juv (3jp) TY99434 in the West scrub on the 04 08 2021.

Also on the 21st,two more Sedge Warblers were heard,a Lesser Whitethroat was seen in the East scrub and a good find again by Glenn was a Wall brown in the Brookland/Abbey Meads area.

Glenn later during the afternoon was lucky enough to see a Osprey from Bucket wood which had been feeding in the area of St  Peter`s bridge.

22nd Garden Warblers,one in the East scrub and another along the Mill stream by the Dipping pond and a Hobby over the Railway lake.