'Patch' Birding 2019

We previously recorded Birds on the so-called, 'Patch', seen from the Footpath which runs up to the Thames from Crabtree Manorway North in Belvedere and thence downstream from the Thames Path, to just beyond Corinthian Manorway, in Erith.

It included the area, say 200 yards inland, running parallel to the River. Sadly though; almost all of the ground immediately inland from the River has been built on although it included the (fairly small) newly-landscaped Lake beside Church Manorway and the Footpath that runs between Church Manorway and Bronze Age Way where there is a short stretch of Ditch bordered by Reeds &c.

But we didn't bother this year.

That being said, we have decided that to give some focus to our Bird-Watching for the rest of the year and will record Birds seen on a modified version of the 'Patch': simply, anything seen from the Footpath which runs up to the Thames from Crabtree Manorway North in Belvedere and thence downstream from the Thames Path, to just beyond Corinthian Manorway, in Erith.

After starting during early-July, forty-five (45) Bird' Species were seen viz.

Black-Headed Gull
Black-Tailed Godwit
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Canada Goose
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Common Sandpiper
Cormorant 
Curlew
Dunlin
Dunnock
Egyptian Goose (a Family Group of Mama, Papa and Children) viz.

Feral Pigeon
Gadwall
Goldfinch
Great Black-Backed Gull
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
Herring Gull
House Sparrow
Kestrel
Kingfisher
Lapwing
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Linnet
Little Egret
Magpie
Mallard
Moorhen 
Mute Swan
Oystercatcher
Pied Wagtail
Redshank
Ring-Necked Parakeet
Robin
Rock Pipit viz.

Ringed Plover

Shelduck
Starling
Stonechat viz.

Teal
and Wren