@ianthewildside.bsky.social
Environmental researcher, writer, campaigner, and lecturer
What a great year for the Long-tailed Tits - one of my favourite garden birds and doing rather well!!
17.02.2026 20:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The welcome return of the Greenfinches!
After an absence of around 10 years, the last 5 years have seen numbers gradually build in my wildlife garden.
Welcome back!!!
Some thoughts on BATTLESCAPES
youtu.be/3-4kWim9Kb0
Many thanks.
Ian
Some thoughts on BATTLESCAPES
youtu.be/3-4kWim9Kb0
Shadow Woods - a search for lost landscapes - my 2018 presentation to the Ancient Tree Forum!
www.ancienttreeforum.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Sheffield’s Heritage Partnership Board (SHPB) project call / press release
Putting local traditions on the map :
www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/news/from-sw...
Of Ghosts & Shadows in the countryside
www.instagram.com/reels/DTz05A...
The first woodland conservation work in Sheffield's Graves Park for over 40 years!!
ianswalkonthewildside.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/w...
Review of 'The New Locust Years' book by Professor Charles Watkins in the journal 'Landscape History'.
ianswalkonthewildside.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...
Sharing & Caring for people & nature - Visitor Pressures - aspects of woodland heritage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ-m...
Atlantic Rainforests & Temperate Woodlands - extending the conceptual boundaries & understanding eco-history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9io...
Arboricultural Journal Review of the
‘New Locust Years’ book
ianswalkonthewildside.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/a...
Garden Squirrel - sometimes annoying but generally cute!!
25.12.2025 22:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Goldfinch on the sunflower hearts
25.12.2025 22:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Garden Blue Tit on the suet bar feeder.
25.12.2025 19:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 'Birdman of Belton' near Doncaster - courtesy of Paul Bennett! Feeding the birds with wonderful results!
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The Woodland Heritage Series of Interviews.
No. 3: Ghost & Shadow Woodlands - aspects of woodland heritage. Updated, final version!
youtu.be/GY2fY3aTDpA
The Woodland Heritage Series of Interviews.
No. 3: Ghost & Shadow Woodlands - aspects of woodland heritage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nap4...
Review of the 'New Locust Years' book on Instagram:
www.instagram.com/p/DSCudV-CLp3/
Follow Wildtrack Publishing on Instagram:
www.instagram.com/wildtrack.pu...
WILDER VISIONS CONFERENCES: 2026 -
'Creating and Managing Meadows and Scrub'
www.instagram.com/p/DRcQsLMk0hy/
Battlescapes on Instagram!!
instagram.com/p/DSSVGNsiI-o/
The 'Woodland Heritage Series' of interviews.
No. 2 'Natural Regeneration - creating new woodland'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Hm...
On Woodland Indicators and Holly in Ancient Woods:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N3d...
Great Spotted Woodpecker on the sunflower hearts and freezing as he pretends I can't see him........
11.12.2025 23:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The starlings are back in the wildlife garden - and they are very hungry!!
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And in the Sheffield Star - ‘A Walk on the Wild Side of Christmas!’
www.thestar.co.uk/arts-and-cul...
More about the 'Graves Park Parakeets' on one of 'Mike's Missions' - 'On Safari':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl4k...
‘A Walk on the Wild Side of Christmas!’ for details see below:
ianswalkonthewildside.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/m...
