Encompassing Thamesmead (East) Wildlife Walk with J D Swann
Third Encompassing Thamesmead walk, find out about wildlife in the area by walking in its habitats and waterways together with J D Swann.
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The Thamesmead Social
Bazalgette Way London SE2 9AN United KingdomAbout this event
- Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes
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A series of wildlife walks in spring and autumn 2025 with ornithological investigator J D Swann supported by a London Community Foundation grant. These walks Encompass Thamesmead – Heading North (Southmere Lake and to canals around North Thamesmead) / South (Southmere Lake, Abbey Way, Lesnes Abbey Woods) / East (Old Golf Course, Crossness Nature Reserve) and West (Gallion's Park and Gallion’s Reach). There will be drawing materials and a J D Swann stamped notebook given to each participant for their notation.
J D Swann is an ornithological investigator, encouraging collective experiences of the natural world. The Encompassing Thamesmead walks (2025) are supported through a London Community Foundation grant. In 2024 there were Birds & the Bees Walks in collaboration with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and with Kinetika for T100 Goes Wild, RSPB Rainham. In 2023 were public walks on Crossness Marshes and sketch observation walks at Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park and the Thamesmead Festival. In 2022 he led Three Walks for Three Rivers in Slade Green and Erith and devised Food for Feathered Friends an interactive game with Miyuki Kasahara. In 2021/22 were six Thamesmead Wonder Walks through every season. Thamesmead’s Best Beaks a quest to find the ultimate local bird was a residency in Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg (2019). In 2020/21 J D also narrated and edited Thamesmead’s Best Beaks, an online radio series on RTM (Radio Thamesmead) and subsequently the series Thamesmead Wild Chorus seasonal highlights of his live stream from TUMP39. He is an associate of the InspiralLondon walking trail and is a supporter of the Save Crossness Nature Reserve campaign.