As a young man he had cycling holidays birding to Austria when there were no such thing as modern field guides to sort the birds out. He cycled all his life (all the way from Oxted to Bough Beech most Sundays) and was a member of a cycling club and kept in touch with friends through this.

He was a past Editor of the London Bird Report (London Natural History Society). He has served in many capacities for that Society, e.g. on its Rarities Committee.
He has contributed countless notes and papers to many of the publications of that society and numerous other birding and natural history societies - British Birds, Birdwatch, Birding World etc - and letters to the Times when they were thought necessary! His paper on hybrid ducks and the breeding yellow wagtails of Beddington was erudite and well remembered. He had just finished and had accepted for publication a paper on the house sparrow for Birdwatch magazine. He was a major contributor to the recently published Breeding Bird Atlas for Greater London. His painting and drawing were excellent and he was outstanding for map production. His line drawings were included in the Isles of Scilly bird report - an archipelago for which he had a close and long association - he spent a month-long birding/twitching holiday there every year since anyone can remember. His personal bird library would grace the British library. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of all things avian.

A gentle, kind, generous, thoroughly honest and reliable man - one of the good old school who was never seen come rain or shine come birding or gardening without his collar and tie. A very sad day for his many friends and acquaintances and a great loss to the world of ornithology.

His considerable collection of books have been sold with the kind permission of his niece so that the money could be used to support projects at the first RSPB Reserve in Surrey at Farnham Heath.

A feeding station has been set up near the entrance of the Reserve.

A simple plaque was inscribed dedicating this area to Ken along with feeders for peanuts, sunflower seed and nyjer seed, a ground feeder and bird bath.

Several committee members (Brian Hobley, John Jeal, Brian Thomas, Val Collins, and Pat Jordan) and members (Elizabeth Moss and Gordon Holmes) of the East Surrey Group went down to the Reserve at Farnham on Friday October 22nd to set up the feeding station and were met by Paul Outhwaite, from the S.E. Office and Mike Coates, Warden of the Reserve.