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Ian Rotherham

@ianthewildside.bsky.social

Environmental researcher, writer, campaigner, and lecturer

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Ian Rotherham@ianthewildside.bsky.social · last wk.

Not much space for nature in this arable farmland in the Yorkshire Wolds. It is productive farmland but only through intensive physical & chemical inputs - but it could be so much more.......with regenerative farming maybe it could be more sustainable??

Ian Rotherham@ianthewildside.bsky.social · last mo.

As temperatures have fallen the numbers of bird visiting the wildlife garden feeders have increased, with flocks of titmice including Long-tailed Tits, but also juvenile Goldfinches & plenty of Greenfinches too.

Ian Rotherham@ianthewildside.bsky.social · last mo.

The Poacher's Oak Markeaton Park, Derby - this venerable oak tree still stands despite fire-damage - a fate & treatment that befalls many ancient, hollow trees. So sad that (a minority of) local people treat the tree this way. However, the sheer resilience gives hope in today's uncertain times.

Ian Rotherham@ianthewildside.bsky.social · last mo.

Juvenile Starling moulting into adult plumage and really looking very exotic indeed! I get quite a few enquiries from readers asking what these birds are ....... as they look unlike the normal (i.e., adult) Starlings.

Ian Rotherham@ianthewildside.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A feeding frenzy on the garden feeders as temperatures dropped last week. 20+ Blue Tits, 10+ Great Tits, & several Coal Tits were joined by churring, twittering Long-tailed tits. Greenfinches, Goldfinches, & Bullfinches jostled for position with the House Sparrows!

Ian Rotherham@ianthewildside.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Grey Heron stalking the Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve, Sheffield. Set up as the region's first Countryside Management Project Area back in the 1980s when I was the city's ecologist, & great to see nature thriving here today! Much down to dedicated volunteers & rangers.

Ian Rotherham@ianthewildside.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not a great advert for 'meadow management'. This south-Sheffield site is species-poor, biomass heavy, & now tinder dry, a massive fire-risk, & it looks unkempt. A few years back it was a promising, attractive, meadow sward. It needs TLC & eco-architect species like Yellow Rattle.