Out and About in the Falconwood area (the Royal Borough of Greenwich)

En-Route to a Funeral being held in the Eltham (Falconwood) Crematorium via Falconwood Railway Station, we decided to look for Wild Flowers, finding, inter-alia:

Annual Meadowgrass
Annual Mercury
Bramble
Buck's-Horn Plantain
Buddleia
Cleavers
Common Chickweed
Common Mallow
Cow Parsley
Creeping Thistle
Daisy
Dandelion
Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Fat Hen
Garlic Mustard
Groundsel
Herb Robert
Mugwort
Narrow-Leaved Ragwort
Nettle
Petty Spurge
Prickly Sow-Thistle
Red Dead-Nettle
Redshank
Ribwort Plantain
Shepherd's-Purse
Sow-Thistle
Water Bent
White Dead-Nettle 
and Yarrow

A total of thirty Species.

Grid Reference(s): tbi

Hoverflies and Bees on the Allotments

There were quite a few Hoverflies and Bees out and about in the Morning' Sunshine on the Variegated Ivy growing beside the Allotments, including these Guys:

A Brief Visit to look for Godwits &c. on the Thames' Foreshore in the Erith area

We arrived just as the Incoming Tide was covering the last of the Exposed Mud in the Erith area (off Corinthian Manorway).

Bird Species seen on the Foreshore and beside the Thames Path:

Black Headed Gull
Black-Tailed Godwit
Carrion Crow
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Little Egret viz.

Mallard
Redshank
Ring-Necked Parakeet
and Shelduck

It took around twenty minutes for the Mud to be covered and the last of the Godwits to leave.

Lichens beside St Katherine Docks (close to Tower Bridge)

New to us we think (the yellow Lichens) viz.

No Ducks, Coots &c. to be seen in the Docks: just a single Cormorant.

Liverworts beside the Thames (the Upper Pool area)

Some 'Dear Souls' have set up Home on Southmere Lake

And some more might be on their way viz.

Of Moorhens, Swans, Lichens and Mosses in the Canada Water (East London) area

Bird' Species seen: Black-Headed Gull, Coot, Cormorant, Mallard, Moorhen, Mute Swan and Tufted Duck.

Wild Flower' Species seen included: Common Chickweed, Fat Hen, Jersey Cudweed, Pineappleweed and Sow-Thistle.

Some Lichens and Mosses on Bostall Heath

Some more Lichens and Mosses

Some of the Lichens and Mosses that have set up Home beside the Thames Path in the Belvedere and Erith areas:

To Southmere Lake after looking for (and seeing) Ringed Plovers on the Thames' Foreshore

[i] Bird Species seen on/beside the Thames' in the Belvedere area:

Black-Headed Gull
Blue Tit
Chaffinch
Cormorant
Gadwall
Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Lapwing
Linnet
Mallard
Ringed Plover viz.

and Starling

[ii] Bird' Species seen on/beside Southmere Lake:

Black-Headed Gull
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Common Gull
Coot
Cormorant
Gadwall
Great Crested Grebe
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
House Sparrow
Little Grebe
Mallard
Moorhen
Mute Swan
Pochard (just a single Bird)
Shoveler
and Tufted Duck 

Twenty-Five Species seen over both locations. A very Good Total for us.

Some local Pavement Lichens and Mosses

Some Lichens, Mosses and an assumed Honey Bee in the City of London

Due in the City for a Meeting of the Rhodesia Study Circle (held in the premises of the Royal Philatelic Society in Abchurch Lane) we arrived early (at Tower Gateway via the DLR) so we could spend some time beside the Thames looking for Lichens &c.  We also found some Rosemary flowering: and a couple of Honey Bees.

Perhaps we should make a Bigger Effort with Lichens and Mosses

Or just enjoy looking for them? Which will probably be the case.

Some seen during the past few days:

The Mosses we assume to be Grimmia pulvinata viz. the grey hairs

Apropos the Lichens, we think:

Picture 2: Lecanora muralis viz. the Lichen in front of the Moss

Picture 3: Xanthoria parietina and Physcia sp. (possibly Physcia adscendens?)

Picture 4: Xanthoria parietina, Physcia sp. (again, possibly Physcia adscendens?) and an Unidentified Lichen viz. the isolated Yellow Lichens (the large patch and much smaller nearby patch)

Picture 5. an Unidentified Lichen but possibly a Caloplaca sp.?

And we have also seen again our Favourite Stone on the Lesnes Abbey' Ruins viz.