Thameside Migrations – Africa to the Arctic and Back Again – BH365 Event
May 21 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On 21 May Thameside Migrations 3-5pm free BOOKING HERE
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 African 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… and trace a new history of migration and exchange.
This short gentle walk is a companion to the Saturday Distant Sounds of Migration walk (24 May) and to Tidal Migrations Livestream (on International Dawn Chorus weekend 3/4 May) in partnership with Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Centre TCV. Depending on weather and conditions we will either walk just in the park or follow a walk along the Thames and on the foreshore.
24 May Distant Sounds of Migration 2 -4.30pm Meeting at Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park, Gatehouse. 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.
