Of Seals, Wild Flowers, Birds, Mosses and Lichens

We started out looking for Seals on the Thames Foreshore in the vicinity of the former Thamesmead Driving Range and Golf Course.

There were three Seals present including these two:

Next stop: Crabtree Manorway North. We walked up the Footpath to the Thames Path and then walked downstream to where the Ringed Plovers generally hang out: seeing three just before they flew off.

Flowering Wild Flowers seen included:

Black Horehound

Buddleia viz.

Common Field-Speedwell
Common Mallow
Common Toadflax viz.

Cow Parsley viz.

Daisy
Dandelion
Green Alkanet
Groundsel
Hedgerow Crane's-Bill viz.

Narrow-Leaved Ragwort
Oxford Ragwort
Red Dead-Nettle
Sow-Thistle
White Dead-Nettle
and Yarrow viz.

Birds seen from the Thames Path on the Thames Foreshore &c. in the Belvedere area::

Black-Headed Gulls
a Carrion Crow
a Common Gull viz.

a Cormorant
a Great Black-Backed Gull
Lapwings viz.

a Lesser Black-Backed Gull

Redshanks viz.

Ringed Plovers
a Robin
Starlings
a Teal 
and a Wood Pigeon

We also noticed some nice fresh-looking Mosses &c. growing on the Sea Wall and Lichens growing on nearby trees viz.