Ian Parsons
@ianparsons.bsky.social
Author, Writer and Naturalist. Books: A Vulture Landscape; Seasonality; Of the Trees and The Birds; Great Misconceptions - Rewilding Myths & Misunderstandings. NEW BOOK - Tarka Revisited, 100 Years of Rivers and Wildlife. Out June 2026.
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Tarka Revisited - 100 Years of Rivers & Wildlife
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Tarka Revisited - 100 Years of Rivers & Wildlife
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Seagulls and ploughed fields - by English fine artist, Annie Ovenden
More of this artist's stunning work, here: cattogallery.co.uk/artists/anni...
#art #trees #landscape
More of this artist's stunning work, here: cattogallery.co.uk/artists/anni...
#art #trees #landscape
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Seagulls and ploughed fields - by English fine artist, Annie Ovenden
More of this artist's stunning work, here: cattogallery.co.uk/artists/anni...
#art #trees #landscape
More of this artist's stunning work, here: cattogallery.co.uk/artists/anni...
#art #trees #landscape
And finally from me for the #birdoftheday theme of #birds on the edge of water, I've gone for a more unlikely candidate. A Griffon of course! 🪶
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November 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
And finally from me for the #birdoftheday theme of #birds on the edge of water, I've gone for a more unlikely candidate. A Griffon of course! 🪶
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Second up from me for the #birdoftheday theme today, a White Wagtail. 🪶
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November 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Second up from me for the #birdoftheday theme today, a White Wagtail. 🪶
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Today's #birdoftheday theme is #birds on the edge of water. My first offering is a Black-winged Stilt & young. Those legs are amazing! 🪶
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November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Today's #birdoftheday theme is #birds on the edge of water. My first offering is a Black-winged Stilt & young. Those legs are amazing! 🪶
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Coming soon! Tarka Revisted by @ianparsons.bsky.social 📖
An in-depth look at Otters and their rivers over the last 100 years.
Learn more and preorder your copy ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/28sbs2nv
🎨 Cover design by Rachel Hudson Illustration
#mustelids #otters #ottersinbritain #riverwildlife
An in-depth look at Otters and their rivers over the last 100 years.
Learn more and preorder your copy ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/28sbs2nv
🎨 Cover design by Rachel Hudson Illustration
#mustelids #otters #ottersinbritain #riverwildlife
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Coming soon! Tarka Revisted by @ianparsons.bsky.social 📖
An in-depth look at Otters and their rivers over the last 100 years.
Learn more and preorder your copy ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/28sbs2nv
🎨 Cover design by Rachel Hudson Illustration
#mustelids #otters #ottersinbritain #riverwildlife
An in-depth look at Otters and their rivers over the last 100 years.
Learn more and preorder your copy ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/28sbs2nv
🎨 Cover design by Rachel Hudson Illustration
#mustelids #otters #ottersinbritain #riverwildlife
Today's #birdoftheday theme is warblers. Here's a double, a Sardinian and a Savi's. 🪶
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@alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Today's #birdoftheday theme is warblers. Here's a double, a Sardinian and a Savi's. 🪶
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@alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social
Even their heartland is rejecting them...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tiverton council votes to declare Boxing day hunt 'unwelcome'
Motion passed saying
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Even their heartland is rejecting them...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today's #birdoftheday theme is Mr & Mrs. So yet another Bee-eater offering from me, this time a video of female waiting for her mate to bring her a little gift 🪶❤️
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Can you spot the difference?
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Can you spot the difference?
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Today's #birdoftheday theme is Mr & Mrs. So yet another Bee-eater offering from me, this time a video of female waiting for her mate to bring her a little gift 🪶❤️
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Can you spot the difference?
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Can you spot the difference?
Another offering from me for today's #birdoftheday theme of #birds on a wire and I've gone for more colour again. A Roller.
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@robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social 🪶
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Another offering from me for today's #birdoftheday theme of #birds on a wire and I've gone for more colour again. A Roller.
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@robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social 🪶
Today's #birdoftheday theme is #birds on a wire. Let's go technicolour with a Bee-eater.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Today's #birdoftheday theme is #birds on a wire. Let's go technicolour with a Bee-eater.
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I know it is a common species but I was very happy with this flight shot of a European Herring Gull. #birds #birdphotography #birdsseenin2025 #gulls #canonphotography
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I know it is a common species but I was very happy with this flight shot of a European Herring Gull. #birds #birdphotography #birdsseenin2025 #gulls #canonphotography
...the alternative #birdoftheday theme today is #birds with their bills open singing. If its singing you want, it has to be a Nightingale.
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@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
...the alternative #birdoftheday theme today is #birds with their bills open singing. If its singing you want, it has to be a Nightingale.
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@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social
Today's #birdoftheday theme is grounded gulls. Here is a mighty Great Blacked-back Gull, look at that bill!
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And the alternative theme...
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And the alternative theme...
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Today's #birdoftheday theme is grounded gulls. Here is a mighty Great Blacked-back Gull, look at that bill!
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And the alternative theme...
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And the alternative theme...
Very happy to have contributed a small article to @westcountryvoices.bsky.social on one of my favourite subjects, our unique endemic tree species, with a particular focus on those from #Devon
westcountryvoices.co.uk/time-to-cele...
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westcountryvoices.co.uk/time-to-cele...
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Time to celebrate unique tree species!
The south-west of England is a hotbed of newly evolved tree species. There’s a sentence you probably thought you would never read, but it is true. In Britain, we have numerous tree species that are en...
westcountryvoices.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Very happy to have contributed a small article to @westcountryvoices.bsky.social on one of my favourite subjects, our unique endemic tree species, with a particular focus on those from #Devon
westcountryvoices.co.uk/time-to-cele...
@thekentacorn.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social 🌳
westcountryvoices.co.uk/time-to-cele...
@thekentacorn.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social 🌳
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The #birdoftheday theme for today is Thrushes.
Here are 4 members of the thrush family at the #weedypond
The first 3 are all winter migrant visitors - notice the totally black Blackbird - both beak & eye-ring.
Fieldfare; Redwing; Blackbird; Song Thrush.
#thrushes
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Here are 4 members of the thrush family at the #weedypond
The first 3 are all winter migrant visitors - notice the totally black Blackbird - both beak & eye-ring.
Fieldfare; Redwing; Blackbird; Song Thrush.
#thrushes
@ianparsons.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The #birdoftheday theme for today is Thrushes.
Here are 4 members of the thrush family at the #weedypond
The first 3 are all winter migrant visitors - notice the totally black Blackbird - both beak & eye-ring.
Fieldfare; Redwing; Blackbird; Song Thrush.
#thrushes
@ianparsons.bsky.social
Here are 4 members of the thrush family at the #weedypond
The first 3 are all winter migrant visitors - notice the totally black Blackbird - both beak & eye-ring.
Fieldfare; Redwing; Blackbird; Song Thrush.
#thrushes
@ianparsons.bsky.social
The #birdoftheday theme for today is Thrushes, beautiful #birds
I've gone for one of my favourites, a Fieldfare. I love hearing their chuckling call at this time of year. 🪶
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I've gone for one of my favourites, a Fieldfare. I love hearing their chuckling call at this time of year. 🪶
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November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The #birdoftheday theme for today is Thrushes, beautiful #birds
I've gone for one of my favourites, a Fieldfare. I love hearing their chuckling call at this time of year. 🪶
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social
I've gone for one of my favourites, a Fieldfare. I love hearing their chuckling call at this time of year. 🪶
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social
The alternative #birdoftheday theme today is #sparrows
Great #birds so let's go Spanish Sparrow
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Great #birds so let's go Spanish Sparrow
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November 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The alternative #birdoftheday theme today is #sparrows
Great #birds so let's go Spanish Sparrow
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Great #birds so let's go Spanish Sparrow
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Today's #birdoftheday theme is round with an alternative of #sparrows
Will go round first with this rather impressive looking Dunnock!
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Will go round first with this rather impressive looking Dunnock!
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November 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Today's #birdoftheday theme is round with an alternative of #sparrows
Will go round first with this rather impressive looking Dunnock!
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social
Will go round first with this rather impressive looking Dunnock!
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social
The #birdoftheday alternative theme is blurry, #birds in motion. My second and final offering is of a Kingfisher dropping from its nest hole after backing out of it, happens so fast. @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The #birdoftheday alternative theme is blurry, #birds in motion. My second and final offering is of a Kingfisher dropping from its nest hole after backing out of it, happens so fast. @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social
Today's #birdoftheday is about #birds with different coloured spots, but as that sounds like a colour blind test which I'd fail, going to go for the alternative, blurry - birds in motion. A female Gos having a go at me on a licensed nest check.
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@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social 🪶
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Today's #birdoftheday is about #birds with different coloured spots, but as that sounds like a colour blind test which I'd fail, going to go for the alternative, blurry - birds in motion. A female Gos having a go at me on a licensed nest check.
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social 🪶
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social 🪶
Great birds
Lovely views of Crossbills on Bullbarrow Hill today, in the crisp morning light.
We saw 2 small flocks but there were more calling, deeper into the conifers.
What a year it's been for them here in Dorset.
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#ukbirds #Dorset #crossbills 🦉🌿
We saw 2 small flocks but there were more calling, deeper into the conifers.
What a year it's been for them here in Dorset.
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#ukbirds #Dorset #crossbills 🦉🌿
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Great birds
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Looking forward to reading this. #naturewriting
Very excited to share this! My new book, published by @pelagic.bsky.social is out June 2026 pelagicpublishing.com/products/tar...
Tarka Revisited - 100 Years of Rivers & Wildlife
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Tarka Revisited - 100 Years of Rivers & Wildlife
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November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Looking forward to reading this. #naturewriting
And finally a 4th offering (I could go on & on!) for the #birdoftheday alternative theme of #birds on posts, why settle for just 1 bird! Azure-winged Magpies (or the rather prosaic Iberian Magpies if you wish) piling in on a post.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
And finally a 4th offering (I could go on & on!) for the #birdoftheday alternative theme of #birds on posts, why settle for just 1 bird! Azure-winged Magpies (or the rather prosaic Iberian Magpies if you wish) piling in on a post.
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social
So, third up in my #birdoftheday #birds on posts theme I offer a Bee-eater in the mist.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
So, third up in my #birdoftheday #birds on posts theme I offer a Bee-eater in the mist.
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social
@robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social
And on it goes...
Hen Harrier 'Susie', whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
And on it goes...