A Country Pillow Book

A COUNTRY PILLOW BOOK (Index)
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Wadd, Keith 202 waders 330 waders on lowland grassland 404 wading bird chicks 65 wading birds 296, 352, 396, 417, 459 wading birds at risk 365 wading birds loss 347 wading birds to benefit 343 Wadsworth 151 Wadsworth Borough Council 151 wage negotiations 305 Wainwright Society 249 Wainwright, Alfred 249 Waite, Terry 322 Waitrose 41 Wake Up To Birds Week 130, 223 Wakefield 397, 402 Wakefield Badger Group 389 Walberswick 120, 244 Waldon 3 Wales 6, 9, 19 23, 29, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 46, 47, 49, 51, 54, 64, 70, 72, 75, 82, 83, 90, 100, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 118, 119, 120, 129, 130, 135, 140, 142, 143, 151, 154, 156, 162, 163, 164, 174, 184,186, 187, 192, 196, 198, 199, 203, 204, 206, 208, 209, 211, 216, 217, 217, 221, 223, 226, 228, 229, 231, 232, 236, 238, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 254, 256, 264, 267, 275, 280, 281, 284, 285, 288, 290, 293, 296, 304, 306, 308, 312, 315, 317, 320, 324, 325, 326, 328, 330, 331, 333, 338, 344, 347, 348, 351, 354, 359, 363, 365, 366, 367, 370, 372, 373, 378, 382, 386, 387, 388, 390, 391, 393, 395, 399, 401, 402, 403, 404, 406, 413, 414, 416, 418, 421, 423, 424, 426, 433, 435, 436, 436, 438, 441, 445, 447, 448, 449, 451, 453, 454, 468, 469, 470, 472, 473 Wales' best-known bird watcher 217 Wales, Robert 154 walk danger from cows 313 walk from Scotland to London 29 walk to beat congestion charge 293 walker killed by cow 396 walker terrified 381 Walker, Stuart 370 walkers 4, 23, 35, 51, 74, 92, 100, 124 202, 232, 241, 259, 276, 367, 379, 450 walking 97, 335 walking best for losing weigh 186 walking festival 423 walking health benefits 457 walking in towns and cities 169 Walkley, Beryl 459 wall-of-death nets 78 wallabies 411 wallaby 230 wallaby mystery 411 Wallace Yew 207 Wallace, Paddy 20 Wallingford 2, 354 walls of death 86 Walsall 66 Walsh, Allyson 218 Walsh, James 353 Walt Disney 287 Walter Cole BASC gamekeepers' clay shoot 28 Waltham Place Farm 102 Walthamstow 377 wandering albatrosses 59 wandering piglet 83 Wandsworth Council 50, 417 Wantage 28 Wapping 144 War of the Roses 350 warbler 363 warbler species 93 warblers 447 Warburg reserve 364 Warburton, Paul 354 Warcop 92 Ward Wildlife Haven 454 Ward, Brian 45 Ward, Dave 87, 125 Ward, Dr Sally 347 Ward, Les 244 Ward, Mark 407 Ward, Professor Roy 454 Warden, David 371 Warden, Nicky 70, 276 Wardlaw, Julian 384 Wareham 168, 180, 191, 289 Warendorf 4 Warhurst, Pam 158, 179 warm earth 46 warmer spring temperatures 29 warmer-blooded prey 55 Warminster 285 Warnham 115 warped sense of priorities 107 Warren, Dr Martin 441 Warren, Phil 408 Warren, Ruth 352 warrens 212 Warrington 122, 271 Warsop 404 Warwickshire 4, 50, 177, 231, 244, 299, 322, 328, 328, 333, 413, 462 Warwickshire Avon 399 Warwickshire mound 245 Warwickshire Museum 328 Warwickshire truckle cheese 374 Wash 82, 256, 260 Wash frogs last to spawn 296 Washington 169 Washington State 243 Wasley, Andy 172 wasp and bee larvae as food 458 wasp kills fly 323 wasp larvae 323 wasp spiders 126 wasps 48, 67, 323 wasps' nest 48, 67, 72, 172, 323 waste disposal crime 447 Waste Management Licence conditions 277 Waste Regulations 93 Watamu 368 watchdog under threat 447 Watchet 157, 247 Watching Woodland Wildlife 221 water abstraction 386 water bailiff 105 water bank 349 Water Bill 93 water buffalo 62, 152, 365, 389, 415 water companies 386 water crowfoot 420 Water Efficiency Award 442 water efficiency honour for farm 442 water extraction 420 Water for Wildlife 272 water levels 341 water lilies 355 Water of Leith 389 water quality figures 347 water quality so good 361 water rat 26, 359 water rats 369 Water Resources Act 128, 277, 301, 358, 385, 400, 409 water shrews face abyss 397 water snail 349 water supplies 46, 75 water vole 27, 34, 324, 420, 425 Water Vole booklet 281 water vole populations 103 water vole populations extinct 381 water vole radio tracking collars 308 Water Vole Recovery Project 381 water voles 1, 2, 34, 58, 99, 103, 143, 167, 176, 201, 247, 261, 269, 278, 307, 315, 318, 325, 329, 359, 360, 365, 369, 381, 386, 392, 392, 396, 407, 413, 432, 435, 454 water voles mistaken for rats 262 water-logging 79 Water-wise campaign 75 waterbirds 396 waterfalls 113, 192 Waterford 311 Waterloo Cup 15, 102, 174, 189, 193, 201, 203, 204, 288, 292, 374, 381, 432 Waterloo Cup Committee 189 Waters Matters 144 Waters Upton 301 Waters Upton Parish Centre 301 Waters, Dean 352 'watershed in history of democracy' 278 Watership Down 212 Watership Down author 384 waterways clean-up badge 124 Watkins, Richard 45 Watson Act 333 Watson Bill 181 Watson Jones, Richard 21, 28, 34 Watson, Al 411 Watson, Lord 28, 261 Watts Blake Bearne 140 Watts, Bernard 414 Watts, Dr Olly 121 Watts, Olly 399 waxwings 191, 345 way-marking by mice 308 Wayland Wood 192 ways to protect woods 260 WDCS 86 wealthiest postcodes 14 wealthy urban families 333 Weapon of Mass Destruction 426 Wear 258 weasel 106, 123, 362, 443 weasel words 123, 345 weasel's snout 413 weasels 69, 96, 165, 226, 467 weather mapping technology 31 weather's crazy effect on birds 378 Weatherliegh-Davies, Philip 243 weatherproof signs depict bass 288 weatherproof warning signs 52 Webb, David 381 webcam console 319 webs 477 Webster, Jim 448 wedding vows blessed in show ring 271 weed-spraying regimes 327 weeds 8 weeping farmers 208 Weeting Heath 120 Weir, John 11 welfare legislation 61 welfare standards 6 welfare status of deer 320 welfare techniques for game 54 Wellington 194 Wellington boots 12 Wells 301 Welsh 103, 426 Welsh aquarium 330 Welsh Assembly 217, 284, 382, 421, 435, 469 Welsh Assembly HQ 290 Welsh Black 118 Welsh border 56 Welsh coast 424 Welsh cobs 390 Welsh countryside 113, 198, 460 Welsh Douglas fir tree 468 Welsh economy 395 Welsh factory 350 Welsh farming community 210 Welsh Federation of Coarse Anglers 56, 137 56 Welsh forest fight 454 Welsh forestry 16 Welsh forestry work 157 Welsh forests 11 Welsh Grouse Project 4 Welsh Harvesting and Marketing 11 Welsh hills 390 Welsh hunts 'operating within the law' 469 Welsh lakes 20 Welsh lamb 248, 331 Welsh local planning authorities 217 Welsh mountains 287 Welsh national parks 23 Welsh pianos 352 Welsh politicians 413 Welsh river 284, 349, 404, 406 Welsh rivers 280, 363 Welsh salmon and sea trout 342 Welsh shores 365 Welsh stream polluted 421 Welsh wildlife lovers 64 Welsh wood threatened 267 Welsh, Ashley 244 Welshpool 259, 284 Welwyn Garden City 44 Wem 72, 235, 292, 330 Wem Town Council 235 Wembley Arena 41 Wendover canal 381 Wenning 209 Wentwood Forest 454 Wessex 79 Wessex Downs 380 Wessex Grey Partridge Recovery Group 456 Wessex Grey Partridge Trophy 456 Wessex Trains 352 West Africa 218 West Africa to Scotland migratory route 126 West Anstey 468 West Bay 135 West Bay Harbourmaster 135 West Beck 392 West Bromwich 150 West Cornwall Badger Group 155 West Country 120, 171, 255, 286, 295 West Country cheddar cheese 331 West Country stronghold 444 West Country tin mines 444 West Dunbartonshire 307 West Hatch 468 West Highlands 210 West Lancashire seat 203 West Lomond 184 West London 418 West London Shooting Ground 28 West London Shooting School 469 West Lothian 389 West Mid Show 233 West Midland Meres 264 West Midlands 24, 31, 66, 120, 165, 167, 185, 264, 284, 317, 326, 378, 404 West Midlands safari park 338 West Nile virus 331 West Norfolk 191, 202 West Norfolk Animal Rights 191 West Oxfordshire 102 West Peckham 375 West Riding 202 West Somerset 221 West Somerset coast 157 West Street Tickham Foxhounds 14 West Sussex 27, 58, 65, 71, 82, 97, 211 240, 263, 286, 297, 311, 318, 343, 413 West Sussex County Council 311, 359 West Wittering 9 West Yorkshire 181, 402 Wester Ross 396 Westerdale 136 Western Australia 202 Western Highlands 30 Western Isles 34, 325, 375, 378, 387, 402, 450, 459 Western Isles Council 375 Western Perth 267 Westgarth, Jeremy 170, 321, 330, 359 Westhay Moor 466 Westminster 15, 41,89, 206, 277 Weston-Super-Mare 368 Weston-under-Redcastle 356 wet grasslands 104 wetland 'too wet' for birds 460 wetland birds 248, 252, 386 wetland birds under threat 317 wetland breeding birds 347 Wetland Centre 190 wetland conservation 358 wetland cuckoos 447 wetland ecosystems 377 wetland habitat 75, 264 wetland habitats vanishing 317 wetland nature reserve 53 Wetland Restoration Manual 156 wetland scheme 357 wetland site 438 wetland species 156 wetland wildife sites 27 wetland wildlife site study 355 wetland wildlife threat 272 wetlands 200, 241, 251, 319 wettest autumn and spring on record 152 Weymouth 185, 228, 285 Weymouth and Portland Borough Council 285 Weymouth and Portland District 343 Weymouth relief road 343 whale 77, 382 Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society 86 whale beached 424 whale jawbones hunted 392 whale killed by ship 82 whale made international headlines 471 whale sounds 361 whale watchers 23 whale, dolphin and porpoise populations 196 whales 23, 57, 62, 86, 87, 157, 161, 183, 222, 238, 271, 303, 304, 317, 337, 354. 462 whales beached 377 whales beaching themselves 86 WHAM 11 what makes a good nestbox 371 wheat field 58 wheat harvest 152 wheat stubble fields 327 Wheate, Professor Roger 221 wheatears 385 wheel-shaped web 477 wheelchair accessible loch 460 whelk shell 61 Where The Birds Sing 235 Where to Buy Peat-free Products 296 Whinash 404 Whinfell Forest 377 whip man 33 Whipendell Wood 307 whipper-in 104 whippet 281 Whipsnade Zoo 327 whiskered tern 143 Whitbarrow 111 Whitby 136 Whitchurch 43, 272 white admiral butterfly 133, 455 White Beaked Sedge grass 294 white bulls 412 White EJ 400 White Paper 202, 296 White Paper on airports 366 white storks 397, 402 white-beaked dolphin 337 white-beaked dolphins 157 white-clawed crayfish 78, 420 white-fronted geese 4, 379, 419 white-tailed eagles 280, 334 white-tailed eagles' emotional jolt 451 white-tailed sea eagles 441 Whitefaced Drift of Dartmoor's Prapper Sheep 435 Whitefaced Woodland ram 266 Whitehall 122, 127, 213 Whitehaven Magistrates Court 330 Whitehouse Farm Centre 274 Whitelee moor 161 whitethroat 29, 93 whitethroats 113 whiting 30 Whitstone 128 Whittam, Steve 394 Whittingdale, John 2 Whitty, Lord 174, 186, 192, 195, 202, 229, 289, 331, 344 Whitworth, Melissa 423 whooper swan 188 whooper swans 4, 263, 441 WHSmith 191, 213, 472 WI protest 41 Wick 184 Wicken Fen 120 Widdecombe, Ann 395, 401 widgeon 95 wife 12 Wigan 243, 456 wigeon 170, 216, 396 wild bird cover crops 235 wild bird offences 15 wild birds 'netted' in Scotland 432 wild boar 350, 361, 431, 471 wild boar as big game 387 wild boar balance 471 wild boar breaks woman's leg 372 wild boar escape 379 wild boar released by animal activists 468 wild boar studies 387 wild edges to fields 406 wild fish infected by farmed salmon 259 wild garlic 307 wild geese 419 wild grasses 294 wild hyacinth 35 Wild Mammal Protection Bill 359 Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 271, 378 wild orchids 62 wild pear 307 wild pigs 431 wild rhubarb 188 wild salmon stocks 158 wild service tree 307 Wild Trout Trust 325 Wild, Wet and Wonderful 70 wildcats 393, 433 wildflower field margins 328 wildflower meadow 114 wildflower meadows 22, 196 wildflower strips 49 wildflowers 21, 307, 328, 365, 394, 408, 413, 435 Wildfowl and Wetland Trust hits members target 252 Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust 7, 18, 95, 103, 110, 246, 272, 274, 322, 343, 378, 382 Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserves 263 wildfowlers 358 wildfowling 37 wildfowling attack 358 wildfowling clubs 358 Wildlife and Countryside Act 2, 112, 132, 155, 162, 196, 201, 207, 246, 343, 401, 407, 465, 472 wildlife benefits of hunting 329 Wildlife Conservation Research Unit 393 Wildlife Conservation Unit 396 wildlife corridors 226 wildlife crime 15, 72, 112, 230, 329, 463 wildlife-friendly farming grants 286 wildlife garden 311 wildlife photographer job 207 wildlife thieves 240 Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country 305 Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales 269, 365 Wildlife Trusts 18, 113, 114, 124, 127, 139, 148, 151, 156, 161, 163, 167, 172, 183, 186, 192, 196, 203, 206, 209, 214, 218, 222, 236, 239, 248, 251, 254, 262, 268, 269, 272, 277, 278, 283, 289, 290, 291, 296, 297, 298, 300, 305, 312, 314, 325, 340, 364, 369, 373, 387, 393, 408, 430, 432, 460, 465, 467 Wildlife Veterinary Investigation Centre 189 wildlife wardens 200 Wildlife Week 114, 218 wildlife-friendly farming 317 Wildmoor Heath Nature Reserve 206, 254 Wilkes, Richard 240 Wilkinson, Beverley 276 Wilkinson, Hannah 143 Willard, John 407 Willet, Jonathan 243 William Clough trespass route 219 Williams, Arthur 348 Williams, Brian 396 Williams, David 472 Williams, Gwyn 168 Williams, Iolo 217 Williams, Ken 32, 43 Williams, Mark 396 Williams, Roger 345 Williams, Trevor 236 Williamson, Henry 221 Williamson, Victor 196 Willis, Professor Ken 329 willow 28 willow crop 296 willow eating beetles 296 willow tit 103, 235 willow tit slump 340 willow tree 296 willow trees 59 willow warbler 113, 29, 93, 417 willow warblers 301 Willows Animal Sanctuary 97 Wilson, Allan 189, 207, 221, 341, 375 Wilson, Andy 317 Wilstone Reservoir Nature Reserve 409 Wiltshire 16, 22, 40, 72, 137, 139, 194, 253, 263, 285, 325, 356, 382, 414, 418, 422, 427, 436, 444, 448, 456, 462 Wiltshire Police 427 Wiltshire slaughterhouse 337 Wiltshire Wildlife Trust 22 Wimbledon 139, 249, 467 Wimpy 5 Winchester 86, 138, 207, 310 wind chime noises 361 Wind in The Willows 34, 103, 192, 359, 369, 397 wind tunnels 276 wind turbines 140 metres tall 441 Windermere 321 windfarm development threat 404 windfarm threat 441 windfarms menace 368 windfarms threat 384 window box 215 window cleaner 341 window strike feather dust 389 Windsor 477 Windsor Castle 138 windthrow 258 wine bottles sealed with plastic corks 190 wine corks 253 Wine of the Year 2001 107 wine suppliers 190 Winfrith 399 Winfrith reserve 364 wing-tagged 247 wings clipped 358 Winnie the Pooh 192 Winsford 36 Winspear, Richard 421 Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship 202 WinSund 247 winter cereal 450 winter cereal crops 79 winter corn ruined by frost 435 Winter Farmland Bird Survey 327 Winter Gull Roost Survey 368, 420 Winter Mammal Monitoring 261 winter of unrest 65 winter rape crops 3 winter sowing 327 winter stubble fields 88 winter stubbles 421 winter walks 6 winter-sown crops 450 Winterbourne stream 310 wintering birds 206 wintering bittern population 68 wintering wetland ducks 68 Winterton Dunes 27 Wirral 353 Wirtz, Jan 108 Wise Ways with Conservation 200 Wise, Steve 475 Wishart, Dr Graham 407 Wistanstow 168 Witch's Trail 444 Witham-on-the-Hill 187 wives, mothers, and daughters 61 Woburn Abbey 107 Wokingham 301 Woldingham 14 wolf 60 wolf reintroduction programme 344 wolf spider 477 wolf spiders 353 Wolf Trust 344 Wolverhampton 44 Wolverhampton Airport 414 Wolverhampton Airport Action Group 414 Wolverley 45 wolves 60, 235, 344, 453 Wom Brook Water Vole Project 407 woman attacked by cows 313 Wombourne 407 women for foxhunting 322 Women's Food and Farming Union 61 Women's Institute 41 Women's Institute members 47 Women's Vigil 322 wood processing industry 16 wood anemone 196, 454 wood ant 48 Wood False-Brome grass 294 wood as fuel 164 wood fuel 262 wood fuel first 354 wood given special protection 324 Wood Lane Nature Reserve 259 Wood Melick grass 294 wood mice 444 wood mice leave signposts 308 wood mouse 106 wood pasture 150 wood pigeon 126, 300 wood pigeons 217, 460 wood processors 223, 363 wood sandpiper 311 wood warbler slump 340 wood white butterflies 267 wood white butterfly 455 wood-fired power plant 28 wood-munching pests 120 Woodbridge 352 woodcock numbers 418 woodcock pilots 452 Woodcock, Elizabeth 183 woodcocks 132, 452 woodland 199, 200 woodland and forest sites survey 429 Woodland Assurance Standard 284 woodland battle 285, 428 woodland birds 147, 235, 336, 340, 384, 417, 442, 476 woodland canopy 320 woodland conference 178 Woodland Conservation and Pheasants 331 woodland cover 144 woodland creation 252, 264 woodland cuckoos 447 woodland edges 58 woodland experts 473 woodland fruits 313 woodland habitat 168, 108 woodland heritage 169 woodland inspiration 350 woodland mammals 247 woodland management 235, 331, 471 woodland management plan 145, 156 woodland management technique 103, 164 woodland managers 58, 247, 320, 375 woodland officers 54 woodland on isles plan 375 woodland owners 125, 162, 189, 223, 260, 320, 322, 348 woodland owners boosted 284 woodland owners' booklet 343 woodland recreation 286 woodland regeneration in Scotland 171 woodland regulations 107 Woodland Surveys branch 338 woodland threat 343 woodland trails 124 Woodland Trust 23, 31, 35, 45, 54, 62, 72, 75, 81, 85, 94, 103, 108, 119, 129, 140, 150, 155, 157, 164, 168, 171, 181, 185, 191, 199, 206, 207, 210, 213, 217, 222, 236, 240, 244, 252, 253, 259, 264, 267, 270, 276, 277, 285, 290, 293, 297, 307, 319, 322, 343, 366, 374, 418, 439, 444, 454, 472, 474 Woodland Trust fury 312 Woodland View Fish Farm 315 Woodland Wild Boar farm 468 woodlands 96, 341 woodlands chosen for red squirrels 465 woodlands invaded by rhododendron 68 woodlands newly planted 322 woodlands searched 401 woodlands support 418 woodlark 169, 416 woodlarks 131, 180 Woodley, Tony 454 woodlice 138, 477 woodlouse spider 477 Woodmass, Alec 114 woodpecker 214 woodpeckers 92, 241, 300, 476 woods that inspired favourite authors 192 Woods, Dr Alan 20, 83, 122 Woods, Michael 99, 397, 433 woolly mammoth 154 Woolston 271 Worcester 177, 240, 284, 336 Worcester, Bob 179 Worcestershire 147, 177, 223, 249, 301, 311, 315, 329, 338, 378 Worcestershire Badger Society 311 Worcestershire hunt 322 Worcestershire shop 45 Wordsworth 192 work permits 53, 85 workforce working illegally 314 World Bird Festival 283, 300 World Book Day 192 World Cup 222 world famous pictorial guides 249 world food stocks 424 World Heritage base 457 world record wasps' nest 72 World Rural Women's Day 61 World Sheepdog Trials 256 World War Two airstrip 22 World Wide Fund for Nature 18, 27, 53, 62, 75, 199, 259, 286, 290, 318, 401 world's biggest owls 208 world's largest importer of wines 190 world's largest season change survey 168 world's oldest rescued male grey seal 448 world's oldest wake-up call 305 worm halts bridge 283 worms 69, 98, 106, 149, 182, 205, 234, 273, 300, 332, 336, 351, 383, 437, 458 Worrall Thompson, Antony 236, 255, 350 Worrall, Stephen 82 Worsley, Graeme 375 worst Christmas trading 436 worst year for strandings of sea life 183 Worston Brook 254 Worthy Farm 301 Wouldham to Detling Escarpment 62 Wozencraft, Deb 460 Wrathall, Dr Julia 138 wrecked manicured privet hedge 473 wren 130, 133, 147, 214 Wren's Nest 120 wren's nest 133 wrens 452 Wrexham 137, 284, 365, 388 Wright, Jeremy 71 writers and poets 192 Wrotham 267 Wroxeter 223 Wroxham 202 wryneck 5 WWT Slimbridge 95 Wychwood Forest 102 Wyevale 411 Wyevale Garden Centre 403 Wymeswold 22 Wynde, Robin 79 Wynne, Graham 13, 71, 191, 233, 241, 319, 336, 357, 366 Wytham Woods 336 Wythop Forest 417