Of Ivy Broomrape (beside the Upper Bedon Stream) and Marbled White Butterflies (on the Holly Hill Open Space) the Holly Hill Open Space

Yippee [I]: the Ivy Broomrape we noticed last year beside the Upper Bedon Stream is coming up again viz.

and Yippee [ii]: the Marbled White Butterflies are back on the Holly Hill Open Space viz.

Afterwards, we rode down to the Thames Path and from Erith up to the Entrance to The Ridgeway beside the Crossness Engines.

Wild Flower' Species on the Thames' Foreshore included:

Biting Stonecrop
Common Mallow
Common Ragwort
English Scurvy Grass
Hemlock Water-Dropwort (flowered out)
Mugwort
Narrow-Leaved Ragwort
Sea Arrowgrass
Sea Aster
Sea Beet
Sea Club Rush
Sea Milkwort
Sea Plantain
Sea Purslane
White Stonecrop
Wild Carrot 
and Yarrow 

Returning Home via Southmere Park we looked in and around the Ditch that was dug a few years ago: Wild Flower' Species seen included:

Black Horehound
Common Knapweed
Common Mallow
Common Sorrel
Creeping Thistle
Goat's-Rue
Greater Willowherb
Hedge Bedstraw
Lady's Bedstraw
Red Campion
Sneezewort viz.

and Teasel

Footnote One: beside the Thames close to the Incinerator Jetty/Wharf, we noticed a (distant) Shelduck Family: our first of the year.

Footnote Two: we can't help ourselves but are fascinated by the Seaweed that grows on the Thames' Foreshore locally viz.