A Pleasant Outing looking for Birds, Lichens and Wild Flowers (the New Year' Plant Hunt)

After popping over to Bostall Heath (the Royal Borough of Greenwich) to see the flowering Gorse, we set forth for Erith Pier (Jersey Cudweed) seeing some Nipplewort on the way, before walking upstream beside the Thames to the Footpath that leads to Norman Road North and where we hoped to see some flowering Winter Heliotropes (we did).

We also kept an eye out for Birds, seeing Black-Headed Gulls, Black-Tailed Godwits, a Chiffchaff, a Common Gull, Dunlins, a Dunnock, House Sparrows, Lapwings, Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, Linnets, Mallards, Pied Wagtails, Redshanks, Ringed Plovers, a Robin, Shelducks and Teals.

Wild Flowers seen in flower for the New Year' Plant Hunt (details have been submitted to the BSBI):

Annual Mercury
Black Nightshade
Bristly Oxtongue
Common Chickweed
Common Field-Speedwell
Common Sow-Thistle
Daisy
Dandelion
Gorse
Groundsel
Hedgerow Crane's-Bill viz.

Hogweed
Jersey Cudweed viz.

Narrow-Leaved Ragwort
Nipplewort
Oxeye Daisy
Oxford Ragwort
Pot Marigold
Red Campion viz.

Red Clover
Red Dead-Nettle
Scentless Mayweed
Shepherd's-Purse
Spanish Stonecrop viz.

Sweet Violet
White Dead-Nettle
Wild Carrot
Winter Heliotrope viz.

and Yarrow

Whilst walking down Norman Road North en-route Home we heard and then saw, a number of Pied Wagtails in the East Paddock (the Crossness Nature Reserve) and saw a distant but unmistakeable Stonechat.

And we mustn't forget Lichens and Mosses viz.