Walkin' on the Wild Side

About Walkin' on the Wild Side

A podcast dedicated to exploring nature all around us and hopefully instilling in our listeners a curiosity and appreciation for the wildlife around us. Join us as we share some amazing observations, interesting and educational facts, and stories about the incredible diversity of flora and fauna found here in the Southeastern United States. Your hosts are Marvin and Gabrielle Bouknight, and Marvin has been a professional naturalist and wildlife biologist for over 30 years and he and his wife, Gabrielle have shared many adventures exploring habitats and observing the amazing flora and fauna of the southeastern United States. To contact us, you can follow us on Facebook at Nature Nook Wildlife Photography (https://www.facebook.com/NatureNookWildlifePhotography), or email us at walkingonthewildside21@gmail.com. To SIGN UP/SUBSCRIBE to our podcasts, simply download your favorite podcast app on your mobile device (we can be found on all the Apple iOS and Android OS apps) and look up "WALKIN'ON THE WILD SIDE" or you can visit our website at https://walkinonthewildside.buzzsprout.com and click on your favorite app (see below, if you're viewing this from our web site). It will take you to the site and our podcast. Click "subscribe" and you're ready to go WALKIN' ON THE WILD SIDE!

Publisher

Marvin and Gabrielle Bouknight

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Jun 2021

Latest episode

26 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 103 episodes have a transcript.

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   26 Aug 2026

   Kudzu - The Vine That Ate the South

   It's time for another episode of Walkin' on the Wild Side! This episode, we are chatting on the back porch, talking about kudzu, that incredibly fast growing vine that "ate the South". Learn the truth about where it came from and why, the issues it creates, and maybe looking a little on the bright side with different uses of this "foot a night" vine. Here's a little bit more about kudzu: https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/indiana/stories-in-indiana/k...

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   4 Jul 2026

   Falling Victim to a Scam

   It's time for another episode of Walkin' on the Wild Side, but this time, we are providing more of a public service. In this day and age, unfortunately, you don't only have to be aware in the woods, but also aware and vigilant due to really bad people. We ALMOST fell victim to an elaborate scam and it was quite a scary situation. We were fortunate to have escaped it, but many people aren't as lucky. We decided to share our experience in the hopes that we can create mor...

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   13 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Hiking Holiday in the Yorkshire Dales

   Host Gabrielle and guest [Guest Name, Credential] share insights from their hiking holiday along the James Herriot Way in the Yorkshire Dales.

Inside a recent episode

Hiking Holiday in the Yorkshire Dales

Published 13 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Lord help you if you get into one of those, unbeknownst. Oh, my goodness gracious. So they are having struggles. conserving these bogs and stuff, and they've had challenges over the years, and we'll talk about that in a little bit, too. And one thing I didn't realize until we started planning this trip is I thought Yorkshire Dales just referred to an area, but it's actually a national park. Yeah, that was crazy. Yeah, I didn't realize it was a Yorkshire Dales National Park. Yeah. And they've got some conservation initiatives that they have, because the thing that completely shocked me, and it's probably because... […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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