Yippee: we reach our Target of Sixty Birds on the 'Patch' for the 'Patchwork Challenge 2016'

Becoming aware that five Common Scoters were swimming in the Thames off the Stone Barges and visible from our 'Patch' * (located on the other side of the River) we toddled down to see if we could see them. And Yippee; they were there, so we had achieved our target of sixty birds on the 'Patch'.

We can now turn our attention to Butterflies, Wild Flowers &c.

The full list of Birds is as follows:

Black Redstart
Black-Headed Gull
Black-Tailed Godwit
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Cetti's Warbler
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Common Scoter
Coot
Cormorant
Curlew
Dunlin
Dunnock
Gadwall
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Great Black-Backed Gull
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Green Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
Herring Gull
House Sparrow
Jay
Lapwing
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Linnet
Little Grebe
Long-Tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard 
Marsh Harrier
Meadow Pipit
Mediterranean Gull
Moorhen
Mute Swan
Oystercatcher
Peregrine Falcon
Pied Wagtail
Redshank
Redwing
Ring-Necked Parakeet
Ringed Plover
Robin
Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon
Rock Pipit
Shelduck
Siskin
Song Thrush
Starling
Teal
Wood Pigeon

Wren

Yellow-Legged Gull

* Our 'Patch' runs alongside the Thames from where the Footpath runs up to the Thames Path from Crabtree Manorway North in Belvedere, downstream, to just beyond Corinthian Manorway, in Erith.

We are also including the area, say 200 yards inland, running parallel to the River, which allows us to spend some time in the Grounds of the Church of St John the Baptist, Erith. Sadly though; almost all of the ground immediately inland from the River has been built on. Also the Footpath running up from Crabtree Manorway North with a Ditch bordered by Reeds, Brambles &c. running alongside viz.