Beside the Thames &c.

We bicycled down to Erith and then drifted up-stream along the Thames Path: turning for Home via the Footpath that runs beside the Waste Incinerator.

Bird' Species seen included:

Black-Headed Gull
Blackbird
Canada Goose
Dunlin viz.

Egyptian Goose viz.

Gadwall
Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Linnet viz.

Mallard
Oystercatcher viz.

Pied Wagtail
Ringed Plover viz.

Shelduck
and Starling


Wild Flower' Species seen included:

Bird's-Foot Trefoil
Bush Vetch
Celery-Leaved Buttercup
Common Knapweed
Common Vetch
Common Water-Crowfoot viz.

Crown Vetch
Dittander
English Scurvy-Grass
Hedgerow Crane's-Bill
Hemlock Water Dropwort viz.

Hop Trefoil
Kidney Vetch
Lesser Sea-Spurrey viz.

Oxeye Daisy
Purple Toadflax
Red Campion
Red Clover
Rosy Garlic
Scentless Mayweed
Sea Arrowgrass
Sea Aster viz.

Sea Beet
Sea Milkwort
Sea Plantain viz.

Sea Purslane
Slender Thistle
Spanish Stonecrop
White Campion
White Clover
White Ramping-Fumitory
Wild Clary
Wild Mignonette
and Yellow Vetchling