An Outing to the Thames Barrier Park and Surrounding area

The Park is located on the North Bank of the Thames: just Upstream from the Thames Barrier viz.

We hoped to find a few Hoverflies and some Wild Flowers: and were successful, up to a point.

The Park itself is regularly mown: nevertheless, we managed to find quite a few Wild Flowers both in the Park (which includes a couple of small 'Wild Areas', where we found Common Mallow, Common Ragwort, Creeping Thistle, Goat's-Rue, Mugwort, Wild Carrot, Yarrow &c.) and the Surrounding area.

Sadly though: with lots of new Residential Developments, the area generally qualifies for the Description, Concrete Jungle! Not a place we will probably ever return to. And we found the 'Sunken Garden' disappointing.

Wild Flowers found:

Annual Meadow-Grass
Black Horehound
Black Medick
Bristly Oxtongue
Buddleia
Common Chickweed
Common Mallow 
Common Orache
Common Ragwort
Common Stork's-Bill viz.

Common Toadflax viz.

Common Vetch
Creeping Purple
Creeping Thistle
Daisy
Dandelion
Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Fat Hen
Goat's-Rue
Groundsel
Henbit Dead-Nettle
Herb Robert
Knotgrass
Mugwort
Petty Spurge
Phragmites (on the Thames Foreshore)
Prickly Lettuce
Procumbent Pearlwort
Purple-Leaved, Procumbent Yellow-Sorrel
Redshank
Red Clover
Ribwort Plantain
Sea Aster (on the Thames' Foreshore) viz.

Scarlet Pimpernel viz.

Shepherd's Purse
Sow-Thistle
White Clover
White Dead-Nettle
Wild Carrot (seen here being visited by a Fly) viz.

Yarrow (being visited by a Hoverfly, Myathopa florea) viz.

And there were at least four Hoverflies, Syrphus ribesii viz.