Thameside Migrations – Africa to Antartica and Back Again – BH365 Event
May 21 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On 21 May Thameside Migrations 3-5pm
Join us for a gentle walk workshop with an introduction to bird migration – the three main visitors to the UK from Africa that use the wetlands along the river include: African Terns, types of marten or swift, and reed warblers.
Why do they travel so far and where do they come from? Much of this remains a mystery but in Late Spring as the leaves unfurl and insects busy themselves multiplying their activity a variety of migrating birds come and feed and breed in the temperate summer. With longer days and an intensity of green flowering the birds take advantage of the welcome refuge at Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park. For this event we take a birds’ eye perspective of travel, exchange and interaction…
This walk is a companion to following Saturday walk and to Sounds from the Ecology Park (on International Dawn Chorus weekend 3/4 May tbc). All walks in partnership with Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Centre TCV.
24 May Distant Sounds of Migration 2 -4.30pm Meeting at Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Centre. A Short Walk exploring migration and other listening in the city with Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park. Exploring and celebrating the migrant birds that come to feed and nest in Greenwich alongside the introduction of plants, people and customs from the Caribbean and from Africa – all parts of the rich diversity supported in the Boroughs multicultural networks.