Ten Years Now: a Long Wait but the Time seems to have Flown

Ten Years ago today. Still lots of things to do but now looking forward to seeing everyone again.

We went down to the River via the Holly Hill Open Space: returning via Lesnes Abbey Park and Lesnes Abbey Woods.

Wild Flower' Species seen included:

Bee Orchid (in the Grounds of St John the Baptist, Erith) viz.

Bird's-Foot Trefoil viz.

Biting Stonecrop
Black Horehound
Bristly Oxtongue
Broad-Leaved Everlasting-Pea
Burdock
Common Knapweeed
Cow Parsley
Creeping Cinquefoil
Creeping Thistle
Crown Vetch viz.

Dittander viz.

English Scurvy-Grass
Goat's-Rue viz.

Hemlock Water-Dropwort
Hoary Plantain viz.

Hogweed
Hop Trefoil
Ivy Broomrape (in the Grounds of St John the Baptist, Erith) viz.

Kidney Vetch
Lesser Sea-Spurry
Meadow Vetching
Narrow-Leaved Ragwort
Oxeye Daisy
Purple Toadflax
Red Clover viz.

Sand Medick viz.

Sea Aster
Sea Milkwort
Sea Plantain
Sea Purslane
Slender Thistle
Spanish Stonecrop
Spear Thistle
Stinking Iris
Teasel
Viper's-Bugloss
White Bryony
White Campion
White Clover
Wild Carrot
Wild Clary
Yarrow
Yellow Vetchling
and Yellow-Wort 

On the Holly Hill Open Space we saw our first Small Skipper Butterflies of the year and by the River we saw the Egyptian Goose Family (Mama, Papa and five Children) and the Young Oystercatcher, looking like an Oystercatcher now viz.