We enjoy an Outing to Woolwich (the Royal Borough of Greenwich)

We traipsed along to Woolwich in the hopes of seeing some of the Great Crested Grebes that inhabit the Thames there.

And Yippee: our luck was in. We were in for a Great Surprise, seeing far more Birds than we had expected to see, as we walked alongside the River from the section beside the old Woolwich Arsenal viz.

which is now being turned into a vast (and doubtless, super-expensive) Communal Housing Area (Big Boxes filled with lots of Little Boxes), downstream towards the Thamesmead area.

Birds seen included:

Black-Tailed Godwits
Canada Geese
Common Gulls (sixty plus)
Common Sandpipers (three)
Gadwalls
Great Crested Grebes
a Grey Wagtail
Lapwings
Mallards
a Pied Wagtail
Redshanks
a Ring-Necked Parakeet
and Teals (circa a hundred)

A Footnote: whilst there we saw number of aircraft taking off from the nearby London City Airport,  including this CityJet BAE 146 / Avro RJ aircraft: