A Bird Walk

It has been a while since we have done a Bird Walk: we tend to be too easily side-tracked (we had intended to look for Birds on New Year's Day but got sidetracked by Hoverflies and Wild Flowers). But despite being occasionally side-tracked by Lichens we managed to generally remain focused on Birds. 

We started out by walking through the Norman Road Field: then across the Crossness Nature Reserve up to the Thames Path and then along the Thames Path to Erith. 

We hoped to see Stonechats in the Norman Road Field and Ringed Plovers on the Thames' Foreshore. And we saw both viz.

Bird' Species recorded:

Magpie

Stonechat (first of the year)

Grey Heron

Wood Pigeon

Coot

Moorhen

Shoveler

Shelduck

Black-Headed Gull

Ringed Plover (first of the year)

Dunlin

Cormorant

Teal

Mallard

Gadwall

Dunnock (first of the year)

Linnet

Curlew

Redshank

Black-Tailed Godwit (first of the year)

Black Redstart (first of the year: seen briefly before being frightened off by a bicyclist)

Avocet (first of the year) viz.

Rock Pipit

Ring-Necked Parakeet (heard only)

Pied Wagtail

and Grey Wagtail (first of the year)

A very respectable total (for us) of twenty-six Bird' Species...