A first visit. We had initially intended to wander round the City of London looking for Lichens &c. However, whilst en-route to Tower Gateway on the Docklands Light Railway, we decided, on a Whim, to disembark at Limehouse and wander round the Limehouse Basin area which falls within Vice County 21, Middlesex.
The area includes the Limehouse Marina: and it is where both the Regent's Canal and the Limehouse Cut empty into the River Thames.
Birds seen included: Black-Headed Gulls, Canada Geese, Common Gulls (a couple on the Thames' Foreshore), Coots, Mallards, Moorhens, a couple of Mute Swans and Tufted Ducks viz.
Wild Flowers seen included:
Annual Meadow Grass
Black Medick
Bladder Campion (growing beside the Regent's Canal) viz.
Cleavers
Common Bramble
Common Chickweed
Common Nettle
Common Vetch
Cow Parsley
Four-Leaved Allseed (growing beside the Limehouse Marina) viz.
Gallant/Shaggy Soldier
Groundsel
Guernsey Fleabane
Hart's-Tongue Fern
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Jersey Cudweed viz.
Nipplewort
Pellitory-of-the-Wall
Red Dead-Nettle
Shepherd's-Purse
Sweet Alyssum
Valerian
Water Bent
and Yarrow
Some flowering Mahonia was attracting a few Bees viz.
And lots of Lichens have set up Home there, including:
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