The Holly Hill Open Space was pretty much Butterfly-Free

We got the Bicycle out and decided to look for Butterflies &c. beside the Upper Bedon Stream and on the Holly Hill Open Space.

Almost immediately, we found some White Bryony beside the Upper Bedon Stream, and a handful of Bryony Mining Bees (Andrena florea) viz.

A single Borage Plant was in flower: the first we have ever seen in the area viz.

No sign of any new Ivy Broomrape but we found some Common Blue Butterflies viz.

And then our first Large Skipper Butterfly of the year viz.

The Holly Hill Open Space was pretty much Butterfly-Free: apart from a couple of Brown Argus Butterflies and a single Common Blue Butterfly.

But we did spy this Character: our first of the year viz.

Where to next? We decided to go down to the River Thames and Bicycle back Home via Belvedere Station in the hopes of a Train or two (more about that later).

Icelandic Hav and Fluvius Otter were moored at Erith Oil Inner and Erith Oil Outer, respectively.

Wild Flower' Species seen on the Foreshore (not all flowering) included:

Biting Stonecrop (almost flowering)
Bladder Campion (flowering)
English Scurvy-Grass (flowering)
Hemlock Water Dropwort (flowering)
(assumed) Lesser Sea-Spurrey (flowering) viz.

Sea Aster (flowering)
Sea-Milkwort
Sea Plantain (flowering) viz.

Sea Purslane
White Bryony (flowering but no sign of any Bryony Mining Bees)
White Stonecrop (almost flowering)

Birds seen included Canada Geese, Gadwalls, Oystercatchers and a lone Ringed Plover viz.

And at Belvedere Station we were lucky enough to see a Goods Train pass through viz.