Ian Carter
@iancarter67.bsky.social
Galloway-based naturalist and author: Rhythms of Nature | Human, Nature | The Red Kite | The Red Kite’s Year | The Hen Harrier’s Year | Wild Galloway
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Ian Carter
@iancarter67.bsky.social
· Feb 20
After a few false starts this has finally been published. A two year love affair with a Galloway glen and an introduction to the wildlife that lives here. From the elusive Red Grouse of the high tops to the swarms of Common Scoter out in the Solway. And everything in between.
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Review of a mountaineering classic www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/11/book...
Book Review: Everest The Hard Way by Chris Bonington
Fifty years ago Chris Bonington led the first expedition to climb the South West Face of Everest, a phenomenal achievement. A year later h...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Review of a mountaineering classic www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/11/book...
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Ian - many thanks!
Nice shelves!
Nice shelves!
For a handful of nature writers, I want to read all that they write. The common traits? Knowledge, understanding, clarity of thought, and a knack for transferring it all to the page with humour and enthusiasm. Mark is one of them. And his co-author is very good too. @markavery.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ian - many thanks!
Nice shelves!
Nice shelves!
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I enjoyed @iancarter67.bsky.social and Dan Powell’s The Red Kite’s Year so I have got a copy of this!
November 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I enjoyed @iancarter67.bsky.social and Dan Powell’s The Red Kite’s Year so I have got a copy of this!
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For a handful of nature writers, I want to read all that they write. The common traits? Knowledge, understanding, clarity of thought, and a knack for transferring it all to the page with humour and enthusiasm. Mark is one of them. And his co-author is very good too. @markavery.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
For a handful of nature writers, I want to read all that they write. The common traits? Knowledge, understanding, clarity of thought, and a knack for transferring it all to the page with humour and enthusiasm. Mark is one of them. And his co-author is very good too. @markavery.bsky.social
For a handful of nature writers, I want to read all that they write. The common traits? Knowledge, understanding, clarity of thought, and a knack for transferring it all to the page with humour and enthusiasm. Mark is one of them. And his co-author is very good too. @markavery.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
For a handful of nature writers, I want to read all that they write. The common traits? Knowledge, understanding, clarity of thought, and a knack for transferring it all to the page with humour and enthusiasm. Mark is one of them. And his co-author is very good too. @markavery.bsky.social
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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
@iancarter67.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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
@iancarter67.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social
Tarka Revisited - 100 Years of Rivers & Wildlife
@iancarter67.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social @drtonygillie.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social
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Tonight's my 14th & last book-related event for the term. So grateful my limited energy has lasted (with many recharge sessions). I've spoken in bank vaults, museums, libraries, bookshops, rewilding sites & round the fire in an Iron Age roundhouse. It's been a ball!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Tonight's my 14th & last book-related event for the term. So grateful my limited energy has lasted (with many recharge sessions). I've spoken in bank vaults, museums, libraries, bookshops, rewilding sites & round the fire in an Iron Age roundhouse. It's been a ball!
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The noisy early morning commute between the Solway and the fields where they feed. As I soon discovered, there were two wildfowlers hidden away directly below the flight line. Had these been Pink-feet rather than (non-shootable) Barnacle Geese, the spectacle would have been rudely interrupted.
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The noisy early morning commute between the Solway and the fields where they feed. As I soon discovered, there were two wildfowlers hidden away directly below the flight line. Had these been Pink-feet rather than (non-shootable) Barnacle Geese, the spectacle would have been rudely interrupted.
Badger paths run across all the different layers of habitat in the glen. Across the fields, through gaps in the stone dykes then up and away into the hills where they make useful routes through the Bracken - narrow but just about walkable lines for humans through otherwise impenetrable vegetation.
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Badger paths run across all the different layers of habitat in the glen. Across the fields, through gaps in the stone dykes then up and away into the hills where they make useful routes through the Bracken - narrow but just about walkable lines for humans through otherwise impenetrable vegetation.
I can’t help but pick up these fishing lures whenever I find them. These are mostly from the Solway strandline, at the edge of our Galloway glen. Our cocker spaniel once found, and almost swallowed, a baited hook, and the sorry story…
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I can’t help but pick up these fishing lures whenever I find them. These are mostly from the Solway strandline, at the edge of our Galloway glen. Our cocker spaniel once found, and almost swallowed, a baited hook, and the sorry story…
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My nature writing-historical-memoiry mash-up, about pioneering, forgotten women & queer farmers has been out a month! Holed up with a broken leg (will be at Romsey Waterstones & Folde) but I’d love some cheer, shares, a review or stars on that Amzn site to help things along! #GhostsoftheFarm x
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My nature writing-historical-memoiry mash-up, about pioneering, forgotten women & queer farmers has been out a month! Holed up with a broken leg (will be at Romsey Waterstones & Folde) but I’d love some cheer, shares, a review or stars on that Amzn site to help things along! #GhostsoftheFarm x
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@iancarter67.bsky.social really enjoyed this. Interesting facts, engaging writing, lots of references and beautiful artwork and stories to the art
(can’t find Dan on here to tag).
(can’t find Dan on here to tag).
November 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
@iancarter67.bsky.social really enjoyed this. Interesting facts, engaging writing, lots of references and beautiful artwork and stories to the art
(can’t find Dan on here to tag).
(can’t find Dan on here to tag).
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this must be so infuriating for the beaver
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
this must be so infuriating for the beaver
The scat looks good for Pine Marten, and is usually the only evidence we have that they are here in our glen. On top of a stone dyke at the edge of the wood. A moulted Buzzard feather found nearby.
October 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The scat looks good for Pine Marten, and is usually the only evidence we have that they are here in our glen. On top of a stone dyke at the edge of the wood. A moulted Buzzard feather found nearby.
Interesting Fly Agaric on the Galloway cliffs today, miles from the nearest woodland. Not sure I’ve ever seen them away from the woods before.
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Interesting Fly Agaric on the Galloway cliffs today, miles from the nearest woodland. Not sure I’ve ever seen them away from the woods before.
A ‘starburst’ print in sand where the burn rushes over the beach (Otters love fresh water for bathing). A few minutes later, one fishing in the shallows offshore, carrying a fish up onto the rocks. Rascarrel, on the north side of the Solway, a regular spot.
October 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A ‘starburst’ print in sand where the burn rushes over the beach (Otters love fresh water for bathing). A few minutes later, one fishing in the shallows offshore, carrying a fish up onto the rocks. Rascarrel, on the north side of the Solway, a regular spot.
Just had a Barn Owl box put up. The blokes installed it the wrong way up and had to come back to flip it round. Got there in the end!
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Just had a Barn Owl box put up. The blokes installed it the wrong way up and had to come back to flip it round. Got there in the end!
Common Rosefinch still at Rascarrel this morning. It has a split ring on the right leg. I wonder if it has been ringed further north in Scotland earlier this autumn? If anyone knows of a ringed bird I‘d be interested to hear. It’s a juvenile so unlikely to be an escapee. @dgbirdnews.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Common Rosefinch still at Rascarrel this morning. It has a split ring on the right leg. I wonder if it has been ringed further north in Scotland earlier this autumn? If anyone knows of a ringed bird I‘d be interested to hear. It’s a juvenile so unlikely to be an escapee. @dgbirdnews.bsky.social
Lots of Honey Fungi about at the moment. The caps are edible if well cooked.
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Lots of Honey Fungi about at the moment. The caps are edible if well cooked.
Juvenile Common Rosefinch. Feeding along the strandline by bushes in front of the old beach cabins (not the new rentals) at Rascarrel this afternoon. Usual vast numbers of Common Scoter offshore, some close in. @barryodowd.bsky.social @steverutt.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Juvenile Common Rosefinch. Feeding along the strandline by bushes in front of the old beach cabins (not the new rentals) at Rascarrel this afternoon. Usual vast numbers of Common Scoter offshore, some close in. @barryodowd.bsky.social @steverutt.bsky.social
Perfect little group of Field Mushrooms in rough pasture near the cliffs. Hestan Island and the Solway in the background. Birding and sorting lunch rolled into one.
October 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Perfect little group of Field Mushrooms in rough pasture near the cliffs. Hestan Island and the Solway in the background. Birding and sorting lunch rolled into one.
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May 2015. David Cameron was Prime Minister, UK an EU member, Barack Obama was US President, and this male Marsh Tit hatched in Monks Wood. Colour-ringed 28 August 2015. Photo 2 April 2016. Observed every year since. @martamaziarz.bsky.social & I saw him again today, 10 yrs 5 mo old, still surviving.
October 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
May 2015. David Cameron was Prime Minister, UK an EU member, Barack Obama was US President, and this male Marsh Tit hatched in Monks Wood. Colour-ringed 28 August 2015. Photo 2 April 2016. Observed every year since. @martamaziarz.bsky.social & I saw him again today, 10 yrs 5 mo old, still surviving.
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Today at #WigtownBookFestival 📚
@iancarter67.bsky.social - Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway, a Portrait of a Glen
Robert Twigger's End of The World Survival Guide
@davidgraham-clarke.bsky.social - Epiphanies and Robberies
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@iancarter67.bsky.social - Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway, a Portrait of a Glen
Robert Twigger's End of The World Survival Guide
@davidgraham-clarke.bsky.social - Epiphanies and Robberies
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October 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Today at #WigtownBookFestival 📚
@iancarter67.bsky.social - Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway, a Portrait of a Glen
Robert Twigger's End of The World Survival Guide
@davidgraham-clarke.bsky.social - Epiphanies and Robberies
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@iancarter67.bsky.social - Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway, a Portrait of a Glen
Robert Twigger's End of The World Survival Guide
@davidgraham-clarke.bsky.social - Epiphanies and Robberies
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The latest British Wildlife newsletter is now available, our monthly round-up from the magazines featuring exclusive book reviews, highlights from the back catalogue, and conversations with our authors. You can read the September newsletter here: mailchi.mp/britishwildl...
September 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The latest British Wildlife newsletter is now available, our monthly round-up from the magazines featuring exclusive book reviews, highlights from the back catalogue, and conversations with our authors. You can read the September newsletter here: mailchi.mp/britishwildl...
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Read my review of Renaturing by James Canton, a book that provoked a few thoughts.
@iand777.bsky.social @rewildscotland.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @landethics.bsky.social - you even get a mention Steve
#Rewilding
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#Rewilding
Within September’s newsletter you’ll find @ianparsons.bsky.social‘s review of Renaturing, written by James Canton and published by @canongate.co.uk. Read the review here: www.britishwildlife.com/renaturing/
September 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Read my review of Renaturing by James Canton, a book that provoked a few thoughts.
@iand777.bsky.social @rewildscotland.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @landethics.bsky.social - you even get a mention Steve
#Rewilding
@iand777.bsky.social @rewildscotland.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @landethics.bsky.social - you even get a mention Steve
#Rewilding