{"id":8455,"date":"2023-03-14T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?page_id=8455"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:49:13","slug":"west-london-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/west-london-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"West London Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"443\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/West-London-Wildlife-2022-cover-on-leaves.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/West-London-Wildlife-2022-cover-on-leaves.jpg 885w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/West-London-Wildlife-2022-cover-on-leaves-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/West-London-Wildlife-2022-cover-on-leaves-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/West-London-Wildlife-2022-cover-on-leaves-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bushy Park &amp; Home Park &#8212; Ian Rodger<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#f2de45\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Chiswick House &#8212; Ian Alexander<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crane Park &#8212; Gary Backler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Darlands Nature Reserve, Totteridge &#8212; Roger Tichborne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#f2de45\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Dukes Meadows, Chiswick &#8212; Ian Alexander<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#f2de45\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Gunnersbury Triangle &#8212; Ian Alexander<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hampstead Heath &#8212; David Templer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kew Gardens &#8212; Susanne Masters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>London Wetland Centre &#8212; Lisa Woodward<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Richmond Park &#8212; Vivienne Press<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Riverbanks of the Thames &#8212; Philip Briggs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#f2de45\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ruislip Woods &amp; Lido &#8212; Ian Alexander<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Upper Thames Estuary &#8212; Wanda Bodnar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#f2de45\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Wimbledon Common &#8212; Ian Alexander<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve cheerfully highlighted my five chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aurorametro.com\">Aurora Metro Books<\/a>. It is available from them (online or at their bookshop on The Rise, Richmond), from other booksellers, and from online bookshops such as Amazon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"block-380a91df-1d12-4a66-8a51-b58189e3521d\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/West-London-Wildlifes-authors-Roger-Lisa-Philip-Gary-Ian-Susanne-Wanda--1024x563.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is West-London-Wildlifes-authors-Roger-Lisa-Philip-Gary-Ian-Susanne-Wanda--1024x563.jpg\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The book&#8217;s authors assembled to sign copies: (from left) Roger Tichborne (blogger), Lisa Woodward (manager of London Wetland Centre), Philip Briggs (runs National Bat Monitoring Programme), Gary Backler (chair of Friends of the River Crane), Ian Alexander (London Wildlife Trust volunteer, author of The English Love Affair with Nature), Susanne Masters (botanist of edible plants), and Wanda Bodnar (marine data scientist and paddleboarder)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contents I&#8217;ve cheerfully highlighted my five chapters. The book is published by Aurora Metro Books. It is available from them (online or at their bookshop on The Rise, Richmond), from other booksellers, and from online bookshops such as Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9376,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8455\/revisions\/9376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}