Despite its urban location there’s always something interesting to spot on the Heath: Bittern, Golden Oriole and Honey Buzzard have all come our way before! Nothing promised … but you never know.
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Birds of the Heath in Spring
Discover the returning birds of the Heath in the company of expert birder Pete Mantle. Find out who has arrived from where: chiff-chaff, willow warbler, redstart, winchat, flycatcher – if they’re there, Pete will find them…and maybe you’ll find others…
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Dawn Bird Walk
Beat the doggers and joggers to the Heath and discover a world of birds before it melts away as the Heath gets busy.
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Spiders and other Invertebrates TBC
Discover the original web designers!
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Heavenly Herbs and Wondrous Weeds on Hampstead Heath
Discover a world of flavours, cures and folklore, that lies at your feet on Hampstead Heath.
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The Hidden Heath: signs of the Heath’s past CANCELLED
See the Heath in a new light with archeologist Michael Hammerson.
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Birds of the Heath in Spring CANCELLED
Discover the returning birds of the Heath in the company of expert birder John Hunt. Find out who has arrived from where: chiff-chaff, willow warbler, redstart, winchat, flycatcher – if they’re there, John will find them…and maybe you’ll find others…
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The history of the Hampstead Heath ponds CANCELLED
From Medieval fish ponds to reservoirs for London to the recent controversies surrounding the dams project. All that and the chance to find out whether Winter Swimmers reallly are made of something else.
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Climate change and what it could mean for the Heath CANCELLED
Discover what the most important question of our times might mean for the Heath. Please book by email: hhs.walk@gmail.com
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Tales from the Trees CANCELLED
Explore the trees of the Heath, their origins, their associations, their uses, and above all their stories: why lime is the tree of love, the ancient grafitti of the beech, the protective power of birches … and how conkers won the First World War.
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