Saturday, 20 January 2018

Fifty Bird' Species in a Day?

We are aware of someone who both expects to see and does see, at least Fifty Bird' Species on any one Day.

We are not entirely sure that we have ever seen Fifty Bird' Species on any one Day!

Thirty or so is a Good Total for us.

Anyway: yesterday, we walked up to the Thames Path from Crabtree Manorway North and then Downstream towards Erith, turning off at Corinthian Manorway and then taking a quick peep around the Grounds of St John the Baptist.

There were quite a few Birds about viz.











The full List of Bird' Species seen is as follows:

Blackbird
Black-Headed Gull
Black-Tailed Godwit
Blue Tit
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Common Gull
Cormorant
Dunlin
Goldfinch
Great Black-Backed Gull
Great Tit
Grey Wagtail
Herring Gull
House Sparrow
Lapwing
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Linnet
Magpie
Mallard
Redshank
Redwing
Ringed Plover
Robin
Rock Pipit
Shelduck
Teal

Oh Dear: just twenty-seven Species. Not even Thirty. Ah Well…

Tuesday, 2 January 2018

The (BSBI) New Year Plant' Hunt 2018

Looking locally on New Year's Day in TQ4980, TQ5078, TQ5079 and TQ5178 (excepting in respect of  Gorse, for which see below), we came across 26 Species viz.

Annual Mercury
Common Knapweed viz.


Common Poppy
Common Sow-Thistle
Creeping Thistle viz.


Daisy
Dandelion
Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Gorse (seen in TQ4777 on the journey to to the Chosen Sites)
Green Alkanet
Groundsel viz.


Hawkweed Oxtongue viz.
Hedgerow Crane's-Bill viz.
Ivy Broomrape viz.


Narrow-Leaved Ragwort
Oxeye Daisy
Oxford Ragwort
Primrose
Red Campion
Red Dead-Nettle
Sea Aster viz.


White Campion
White Dead-Nettle
Winter Heliotrope (fifteen Plants in flower) viz.


Yarrow viz.