Birds: Our 2022 'Year' List

Our 2022 Species' Year List (including where first seen). Eighty-five Bird' species: a reasonable total we think...

Avocet (Thames' Foreshore, Erith) viz.

Barnacle Goose (Minsmere Nature Reserve)

Blackbird (Garden, at Home)

Black-Headed Gull (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Black-Tailed Godwit (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)

Black Redstart (beside the Thames Path, Erith)

Blue Tit (Erith area)

Canada Goose (Southmere Lake)

Carrion Crow (Thamesmead area)

Cetti's Warbler (glimpsed: Crossness Nature Reserve)

Chaffinch (Erith area)

Chiffchaff (beside the Upper Bedon Stream)

Collared Dove (Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve)

Common Buzzard (Erith Southern Marsh)

Common Gull (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Common Sandpiper (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Coot (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Cormorant (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Curlew (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Dunlin (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Dunnock (beside the Thames Path, Belvedere)

Egyptian Goose (Grounds, Hall Place)

Gadwall (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Goldfinch (Erith area)

Great Black-Backed Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)

Great Crested Grebe (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Erith area)

Great Tit (Erith area)

Green Sandpiper (Crossness Nature Reserve)

Green Woodpecker (East Wickham Open Space)

Grey Heron (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Grey Wagtail (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)

Greylag Goose (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Herring Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)

House Sparrow (Garden, at Home)

Jackdaw (Greenwich Park)

Jay (Lesnes AbbeyWoods)

Kestrel (Crossness Nature Reserve)

Lapwing (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere) viz.

Lesser Black-Backed Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)

Linnet (Erith area)

Little Egret (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Little Grebe (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Little Ringed Plover (Crossness Nature Reserve)

Long-Tailed Tit (Hall Place, North)

Magpie (Thamesmead area)

Mallard (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Marsh Harrier (Crossness Nature Reserve)

Mediterranean Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)

Mistle Thrush (Grounds, Hall Place)

Moorhen (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Mute Swan (Southmere Lake)

Nuthatch (Lesnes Abbey Woods)

Oystercatcher (Thames Foreshore, Belvedere) viz.

Peregrine Falcon (on the Waste Incinerator, Belvedere)

Pied Wagtail (Thames' Foreshore, Erith) viz.

Pheasant (Crossness Nature Reserve)

Pintail (Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve)

Pochard (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Red-Legged Partridge (Betsham, Kent) viz.

Redshank (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere) viz.

Redwing (Grounds, Hall Place)

Reed Bunting (Crossness Nature reserve)

Reed Warbler (the Pool beside Church Manorway) 

Ring-Necked Parakeet (Thamesmead area) viz.

Robin (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Rock Pipit (Thames' Foreshore, Erith) viz.

Teal (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Tufted Duck (West Lake, Thamesmead)

Sandwich Tern (Leysdown-on-Sea, the Isle of Sheppey)

Shelduck (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Shoveler (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Skylark (heard only: Upper College Farm)

Snipe (Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve)

Song Thrush (Lesnes Abbey Park)

Starling (Thamesmead area)

Stonechat (Crossness Nature Reserve and surrounding area viz. the Norman Road Field) viz.

Swallow (Betsham, Kent)

Swift (Upper College Farm)

Turnstone (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Whitethroat (Southern Erith Marsh)

Wigeon (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Wood Pigeon (Thamesmead area)

Wren (Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve)

Yellow-Legged Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)

Some more Avocets on the Thames' Foreshore

After attending an appointment in the Erith area, we wandered down to the Erith Pier to see if there were any birds on the Thames' Foreshore. 

Species seen included:

Avocet (eleven birds)
Dunlin (hundred-plus birds)

Redshank (fifty-plus birds)

and Shelduck (two birds)

Avocets on the Thames' Foreshore

We popped down to the Thames in the Erith area for a first outing for a while. It was nice to be out again.

Species seen:

Avocet (five: we assume Rainham Marshes' birds):

Blackbird

Back-Headed Gull

Black-Tailed Godwit (a few hundred: recorded on London Bird News as three-hundred and fifty-plus)
Carrion Crow

Cormorant

Feral Pigeon

Moorhen

Magpie

Mallard

Redshank

Ring-Necked Parakeet (heard)

Rock Pipit

Shelduck

and Teal (fifty-plus)

Something new

We understand that the orange Fungus growing with the Grimmia pulvinata (Moss) is probably Octospora musci-muralis (which is apparently specific to Grimmia pulvinata):

Seen growing on the Sea Wall beside the Thames in the Erith area (close to the Conway Berth). 

The records have been submitted to iNaturalist: the first time we have ever submitted anything to them (it seemed more appropriate than iRecord although don't really know why).

We didn't stay long

We popped down to the Thames in the Erith area in the hopes of seeing something unusual, bird-wise; it being somewhat chilly, we didn't stay too long.

Species seen:

Black-Headed Gull

Black-Tailed Godwit c. 500 of 'em

Common Gull

Cormorant

Feral Pigeon

Lesser Black-Backed Gull

Magpie

Mallard

Moorhen

Redshank

Ring-Necked Parakeet

Rock Pipit

Shelduck

Starling

and Teal