In 2022 Daphne Burnett asked her good friend, Peter Firth, a well know local ornithologist, to compile a book of the birds he had seen on his 30 hour-long walks through Rye Meadows. Over 25 years Peter had been walking on Rye Meadows and the adjoining Ashtead Common recording with detail his observations of birds.

Peter therefore wrote this short book - only 20 pages - recording the birds he had seen. The book contains many colour photographs and each one has details of their presence, habitat, breeding season, diet and nest.

Sadly Peter died just after the book was published, but his work on counting the birds on the Meadows has been continued, firstly by Roy Guy, and now by Jeremie Pink.

The book is available through the online shop at only £2.50 and as with "Restoring the Great Marsh", we will deliver free of charge to any KT21 address. If outside this area we will gladly quote for P&P if you email us.