Tuesday 5 December 2023

Birds: Our 2023 'Year' List

Our 2023 Species' Year List (including where first seen):

Avocet (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Bar-Tailed Godwit (Thames' Foreshore, Thamesmead)
Barn Owl (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Blackbird (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Black-Headed Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Black-Tailed Godwit (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Blue Tit (Garden, at Home)
Buzzard (over the Crossness Nature Reserve)
Canada Goose (Southmere Lake)
Carrion Crow (Grounds of St John the Baptist, Erith)
Cetti's Warbler (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Chiffchaff (beside the Thames Path, Belvedere)
Common Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Common Sandpiper (beside the Outfall, the Crossness Sewage Works) viz.


Common Snipe (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Coot (Southmere Lake)
Curlew (Thames Foreshore, Belvedere) viz.


Dunlin (Thames' Foreshore, Thamesmead) viz.


Dunnock (beside the Thames Path, Belvedere)
Egyptian Goose (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Feral Pigeon (Garden, at Home)  
Gadwall (Southmere Lake)
Garganey (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere) viz.


Goldfinch (Quadrant area) 
Great Black-Backed Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Great Crested Grebe (Southmere Lake)
Great Spotted Woodpecker (beside Corinthian Manorway)
Great Tit (beside the Thames Path, Thamesmead)
Green Woodpecker (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Grey Heron (Heronry, off Templar Drive, Thamesmead) viz.


Greylag Goose (the Crossness Nature Reserve)
Grey Wagtail (the Pool beside Church Manorway, Erith) viz.


Herring Gull (Green Park)
House Marten (Greenhithe, Kent)
House Sparrow (Garden, at Home)
Jackdaw (Betsham, Kent) viz.


Kestrel (the Crossness Nature Reserve) viz.


Lapwing (Southern Erith Marsh)
Lesser Black-Backed Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere)
Linnet (beside the Thames Path, Erith) viz.


Little Grebe (Southmere Lake) viz.


Long-Tailed Tit (Heronry, off Templar Drive, Thamesmead) 
Magpie (Grounds of St John the Baptist, Erith)
Mallard (Thames' Foreshore, Erith) viz.


Marsh Harrier (over the Crossness Nature Reserve)
Mediterranean Gull (Thames' Foreshore, Erith) viz.


Mistile Thrush (Grounds at Hall Place)
Moorhen (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Mute Swan (Southmere Lake)
Oystercatcher (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Peregrine Falcon (on the side of the Waste Incinerator, Belvedere) viz.


Pied Wagtail (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Pochard (Southmere Lake) viz.


Redshank (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)\
Redstart (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Red-Legged Partridge (Betsham, Kent) viz.


Redwing (beside Corinthian Manorway)
Reed Bunting (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Reed Warbler (in the reeds beside the Pool in Church Manorway)
Ring-Necked Parakeet (beside the Thames Path, Erith)
Ringed Plover (Thames' Foreshore, Belvedere) viz.


Robin (beside New Road)
Rock Pipit (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Ruddy Shelduck (Thames' Forsehore, Thamesmead)
Ruff (beside the Outfall, the Crossness Sewage Works) viz.


Sand Martin (Southwold, Suffolk)
Shelduck (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Shoveler (the Outfall, the Crossness Sewage Works)
Song Thrush (beside Corinthian Manorway)
Starling (Southmere Park)
Stonechat (the Crossness Nature Reserve) viz.


Swallow (Betsham, Kent) viz.


Teal (Thames' Foreshore, Erith)
Tufted Duck (Southmere Lake)
Wheatear (Crossness Nature Reserve)
Wigeon (the Outfall, the Crossness Sewage Works)
Wood Pigeon (Garden, at Home)
and Wren (South Kensington Underground Railway Station)