He published a pamphlet Rough Notes of Travel and Sport in Kashmir and Little Thibet (1888) which was considered an amusing account.

[3] A keen naturalist, sportsman, and collector of bird eggs, he wrote extensively on his observations from around India and contributed notes to various journals including Stray Feathers edited by A.O.

While being a sport hunter himself, he saw native snaring of birds as a cause of decline in the numbers of the lesser florican.

[4][5] He was a proponent of introducing game species for the purpose of hunting and suggested the introduction of chukar into western India.

[12][13][14] A collection made by Littledale of photographs from India, including pictures from Nainital before the 1880 landslide are held in the Cambridge University Library.