About the event

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📅 Date: Sunday 21st September 2025

⏰ Time: 12:00PM-3:00PM

📍 Meeting Point: Sydenham Hill Station, SE21 7ND ///alert.items.these

(Please meet us in the station car park outside the College Road entrance)

🙋‍♀️ Who can come: Young People ages 16-30

What to expect

📒 Gain skills in identification of key woodland bird species

🐦 Have a chance to see iconic woodland species like the treecreeper, nuthatch and black cap, and learn how they have adapted to forest life

🌳 Explore a surviving part of the Great North Wood, an ancient oak woodland which used to cover much of South-East London

🏠 Birds need homes too! Work together to create bird boxes to make more space for nature in Sydenham Hill & Dulwich Woods!

🗣️ Connect with like-minded people in nature

Why join us!

🍽️We'll provide a picnic lunch with snacks and drinks!

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Bring someone new to nature and get a free coffee voucher to use at London Wildlife Trust cafes!

This event is part of the Big Bird Weekender (20th-21st September) 🦅 🎉

Over 2 days we’ll be celebrating our feathered friends with two special events spanning north and south London.

On Saturday (20th) we’ll be up early in Woodberry Wetlands to experience a bird-ringing session where you’ll get a rare opportunity to see birds up close.

Then on Sunday (21st) we’ll be walking through Sydenham Hill Woods brushing up on our ID skills and constructing bespoke bird houses.

You won’t want to miss it! Did we mention both events (as always) are FREE 🙌

How to get there

🚆 Train: Sydenham Hill (National Rail) – Just 15 minutes from London Victoria

🚏 Bus: Kingswood Drive/ College Road (Route 450) – 7 minute walk,

Wells Park Road (Routes 202/363) – 10 minute walk

🚗 Car: Sydenham Hill Station has limited car parking spaces which are pay and display

Accessibility

If you have any questions about accessibility, please get in touch with us at youth.wildlondon.org.uk

Meet our session leader…

Şeniz

Şeniz is a freelance event lead, content creator, ecologist and campaigner. Coming from a background in ecology and conservation much of her research focused on white stork populations in Sussex. She is also passionate in advocating for inclusion in conservation, helping to pave the way for more young people to be included in the sector.

Instagram: @senizdoesnature

The delivery of the Keeping it Wild Collective is made possible by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

The delivery of the Reuniting Sydenham Hill Wood and Dulwich Wood Project is made possible by our funders and partners: The National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Dulwich Estate, Southwark Council and The Kusuma Trust.