Wednesday 22 December 2021

Birds: Our 2021 'Year' and 'Patch' Lists

[i] our 2021 Year List (generally including where first seen)...

Blackbird
Blackcap (Lesnes Abbey Woods)
Black-Headed Gull (the Roof of St Andrew's Church)
Black-Tailed Godwit (Thames Foreshore)
Blue Tit
Buzzard
Canada Goose (Southmere Lake)
Carrion Crow
Cetti's Warbler (heard only: Crossness Nature Reserve) 
Chaffinch (beside the Thames Path)
Collared Dove (Garden at Home)
Common Gull (Thames Foreshore)
Common Sandpiper (Thames Foreshore)
Common Snipe (Thames Foreshore)
Common Tern (close to the Outfall of the Crossness Sewage Works) viz.


Coot (Southmere Lake)
Cormorant (Thames Foreshore)
Curlew (Thames Foreshore)
Dunlin (Thames Foreshore)
Dunnock 
Egyptian Goose (on a disused Jetty/Wharf in the Woolwich area) viz.


Gadwall (Southmere Lake)
Goldfinch (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Grey Heron (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Greylag Goose (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Great Black-Backed Gull (Thames Foreshore)
Great Crested Grebe (Southmere Lake)
Great Spotted Woodpecker (Plumstead Cemetery) viz.


Great Tit
Green Woodpecker (New Woolwich Cemetery)
Grey Heron (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Grey Wagtail (Thames Foreshore)
Greylag Goose (Crosness Nature Reserve)
Herring Gull (Thames Foreshore)
House Sparrow (the Garden at Home: the first Birds seen/heard during 2021)
Jackdaw (Hall Place North)
Jay (Grounds of St Nicholas, Plumstead)
Kestrel (Bostall Heath) 
Lapwing (Thames Foreshore)
Lesser Black-Backed Gull (Thames Foreshore)
Linnet (Erith Docks area)
Little Egret (close to the Outfall of the Crossness Sewage Works) 
Little Grebe (Southmere Lake) viz.


Little Ringed Plover (Crossness Nature Reserve) viz.



Long-Tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard (Southmere Lake)
Meadow Pipit (Crossness Nature Reserve) 
Moorhen (Southmere Lake)
Oystercatcher (Thames Foreshore)
Mute Swan (Southmere Lake)
Peregrine Falcon (on the side of the Belvedere' Waste Incinerator)
Pied Wagtail (Thames Foreshore)
Pochard (Southmere Lake) viz.


Red-Legged Partridge (Betsham, Kent)
Redshank (Thames Foreshore)
Redwing (Bostall Heath)
Ring-Necked Parakeet
Ringed Plover (Thames Foreshore)
Robin
Rock Pipit (Thames Foreshore)
Shelduck (Thames Foreshore)
Shoveler (Southmere Lake)
Song Thrush (Crossness Nature Reserve and Surrounding area)
Starling viz.


Stonechat (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Swallow
Swift
Teal (Thames Foreshore)
Tufted Duck (Southmere Lake)
Wheatear (Crossness Nature Reserve) viz.


Whinchat (Crossness Nature Reserve) 
Whitethroat (Woolwich Common)
Wigeon (swimming in the Thames)
Wood Pigeon
Wren (beside the Upper Bedon Stream)
Yellow-Legged Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Woolwich area)

[ii] our 2021 'Patch List': as with 2020, Birds seen on the 'Patch' will include Birds seen from the Footpath which runs up to the Thames from Crabtree Manorway North (in Belvedere) and thence downstream from the Thames Path, to just beyond Corinthian Manorway, in Erith...

Black-Headed Gull
Black-Tailed Godwit
Chaffinch
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Common Sandpiper
Coot
Cormorant
Curlew
Dunlin
Dunnock
Egyptian Goose
Gadwall
Great Black-Backed Gull
Great Tit
Grey Wagtail
Herring Gull
House Sparrow
Lapwing
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Linnet
Magpie
Mallard
Moorhen
Oystercatcher
Pied Wagtail
Redshank
Ringed Plover viz.


Rock Pipit
Shelduck
Starling
Teal


Note: All Birds seen locally except for the Red-Legged Partridge...