Useful links

Posted by Wildwood on Dec 30, 2012 in | Comments Off on Useful links

A by no means exhaustive list of sites we’ve found useful and/or entertaining:

1: Identifying species

General sites:

• Wildlife Sightings UK – which you can find at https://en-gb.facebook.com/wildlifesightingsuk  – also has more than 11,000 Twitter followers who are great at getting back quickly on unidentified species.
• Wild About Britain “hundreds of thousands of pages” on British wildlife at http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/
• “Nature’s Calendar” from the Woodland Trust, what’s about and when at http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/
• “Species Explorer” from The Wildlife Trusts at http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/species-explorer
• Natural History Museum’s  guide to British Natural History at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/index.html

Trees:

• Woodland Trust’s A-Z of British trees at https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/

Wild flowers:

• Terrific Botanical Society wild flower identifier at http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/flora/
• Wild About Wildflowers – with a nice insect at http://www.wildaboutwildflowers.co.uk/wildhabitats.asp
• The British Wild Flowers site also covers trees, shrubs, brambles, grasses, sedges, rushes and ferns at http://www.british-wild-flowers.co.uk/index.htm

Butterflies:

• UK Butterflies is a brilliant site – http://ukbutterflies.co.uk/index.php with thousands of Twitter followers who can help you with identification.

Fungi:

• Visual search site based in Sussex at http://www.mushrooms.org.uk/
• Loads of photos at http://www.fungiworld.co.uk/

Birds:

• Bird identifier from the RSPB at http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdidentifier/

2: Reading about other people’s woods

• A nice blog about Ninewells/Catbrook wood by Alan Waterman at https://catbrookwood.wordpress.com/ He also publishes a site dedicated to woodland flora at https://woodlandwildflowers.wordpress.com/
• A well written blog about Alvecote Wood in Staffs at http://docsquid.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/respect.html
• Site about the restoration of a wood in Ceredigion at http://www.thegreenphoenix.co.uk/page5.htm
• Includes nice historic maps and documents of a Kent North Downs wood at http://www.cutlers-wood.co.uk/
• What’s going on at Chestnut Coppice, East Sussex at http://peplers.blogspot.co.uk/
• “We are a group of small woodland owners …” with a site hosting a number of individual blogs and lots of links to resources at http://www.swog.org.uk/
• Stuff to make and buy from a traditional worker at http://morganswood.wordpress.com/
• Great Knelle Wood, an ancient woodland in the High Weald at http://www.knelle.net/
• Den’s Wood in East Sussex, lively blog on work in the wood at http://downindenswood.blogspot.co.uk/

3: Researching woodland issues and policy

• Small Woods Association, simply the site for small wood owners and yes, of course, we are members so we would say that, at http://smallwoods.org.uk/
• Woodland Trust, brilliant site and yes, of course, we are members so we would again say that at http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/
• Forestry Commission (we found our local office very helpful) at www.forestry.gov.uk 
• The Wildlife Trusts at http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/