Of the Birds we had hoped to see or even considered we might see on the 'Patch' *, a Little Grebe was certainly not among them. But as we were walking upstream beside the Thames in the Erith Docks' area we spotted a small distant something swimming downstream. Golly; a Little Grebe we wondered and when it dived under the water we thought we might be right. And so it proved viz.
So we are now up to Fifty-Nine Birds. Nine more than our initial target of Fifty Bird' Species. However, if we make the Sixty we won't be revising our Target again.
Other Bird' Species seen included:
Black-Headed Gull and Shelduck viz.
Black-Tailed Godwit viz.
Blue Tit viz.
Collared Dove
Curlew (we looked over the Sea Wall and there she/he was, just below us ~ we have never been closer to a Curlew and she/he must have known we were there) viz.
Dunlin
Dunnock (interestingly, they look quite different when viewed from the front and side) viz.
House Sparrow
Gadwall
Grey Heron viz.
Grey Wagtail viz.
Linnet viz.
Long-Tailed Tit
Mallard (this girl hitched a ride on a piece of Flotsam drifting up the River) viz.
Oystercatcher (a pair) viz.
Pied Wagtail
Redshank viz.
Teal viz.
* 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.
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