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- !Rain
- 'Wellie swapping' by Keith Fowler
- " A rare event" by Keith Fowler
- " January notes" by Keith Fowler
- " Quincentenary" by Keith Fowler
- " Restored" by Keith Fowler
- " Saved!" by Keith Fowler
- "128 Steps" by Keith Fowler
- "1897
- "28!" by Keith Fowler
- "44" by Keith Fowler
- "A baker's dozen of butterfly species" by Keith Fowler
- "A bluebell sea" by Keith Fowler
- "A brief respite from the rain" by Keith Fowler
- "A cast of thousands" by Keith Fowler
- "A conclave of Cardinals" by Keith Fowler
- "A curious cow" by Keith Fowler
- "A damp squib" by Keith Fowler
- "A dock bug in a pine tree" by Keith Fowler
- "A duet" by Keith Fowler
- "A fungi filled day" by Keith Fowler
- "A genuine double-header" by Keith Fowler
- "A happy fungus" by Keith Fowler
- "A poplar moth night at Wappenshall Wharf" by Margaret Mitchell
- "A punnet of spiders" by Keith Fowler
- "A raft of spiders" by Keith Fowler
- "A repeat performance (almost)" by Keith Fowler
- "A Sea of Bishop's Mitres" by Keith Fowler
- "A Site of Two Halves" by Keith Fowler
- "A sunny day at Shawbury Moat" by Margaret Mitchell
- "A Tortoise in the tale" by Keith Fowler
- "A very unwelcome predator" by Keith Fowler
- "A Visit in Three Acts" by Keith Fowler
- "A Winter's Tale" by Keith Fowler
- "Absent ill" by Keith Fowler
- "After the heat comes the rain" by Keith Fowler
- "All alone" by Keith Fowler
- "All hail!" by Keith Fowler
- "An alien on an alien" by Keith Fowler
- "And the winners are …" by Keith Fowler
- "And then there was one" by Keith Fowler
- "Any old iron" by Keith Fowler
- "Anyone for bread?" by Keith Fowler
- "Are we still in summer?" by Keith Fowler
- "Artistic Lichen" by Keith Fowler
- "At last
- "Avoiding the easy route" by Keith Fowler
- "Awayday" by Keith Fowler
- "Bagpipes" by Keith Fowler
- "Barking" by Keith Fowler
- "Beetlemania" by Keith Fowler
- "Berrington
- "Better late than never" by Keith Fowler
- "Better than anticipated" by Keith Fowler
- "Beware of the Bull" by Keith Fowle
- "Bits and Pieces 3" by Keith Fowler
- "Bridge of delights" by Keith Fowler
- "Brief reports November – December 2022" by Keith Fowler
- "Careful Granddad!" by Keith Fowler
- "Cliff edges" by Keith Fowler
- "Close encounters of a fritillary kind" by Keith Fowler
- "Closed" by Keith Fowler
- "Concorde fly-over" by Keith Fowler
- "Confusion" by Keith Fowler
- "Counting the Days" by Keith Fowler
- "Creative Writing" by Keith Fowler
- "Creepy-crawlies in the Cemetery" by Keith Fowler
- "Danger of Death" by Keith Folwer
- "Day of the Shieldbugs" by Keith Fowler
- "December notes" by Keith Fowler
- "Did I miss something?" by Keith Fowler
- "Difficult journeys" by Keith Fowler
- "Disappointing weather" by Keith Fowler
- "Distinctive marking" by Keith Fowler
- "Distress" by Keith Fowler
- "Don't forget your waterproof" by Keith Fowler
- "Double First" by Keith Fowler
- "Doughnut Bokeh revisited" by Keith Fowler
- "Doughnut Bokeh" by Keith Fowler
- "Dry
- "Early lunch was taken" by Keith Fowler
- "End of Season Sale" by Keith Fowler
- "Everything you wanted to know about root canal fillings" by Keith Fowler
- "Excellent cake" by Keith Fowler
- "Explosion of Butterflies" by Keith Folwer
- "False starts" by Keith Fowler
- "Far
- "February 2023 excursions Part 1" by Keith Fowler
- "February 2023 excursions Part 2" by Keith Fowler
- "February notes" by Keith Fowler
- "First time lucky" by Keith Fowler
- "Flat out" by Keith Fowler
- "Flora
- "Fortunate timing (for once)" by Keith Fowler
- "Freedom to explore" by Keith Fowler
- "From our correspondent" by Keith Fowler
- "Ginger cordial and lemon cake" by Keith Fowler
- "Going ... Going Gone" by Keith Fowler
- "Grand finale" by Keith Fowler
- "Green lung" by Keith Fowler
- "Guess what’s for dinner" by Keith Fowler
- "Happy New Year" by Keith Fowler
- "Hello
- "Hello stranger" by Keith Fowler
- "Herding cats" by Keith Fowler
- "Hitch-hikers galore!" by Keith Fowler
- "Holes in the ground" by Keith Fowler
- "Hot
- "How hard the wind doth blow" by David Williams
- "How many entomologists can you fit under a horse chestnut tree?" by Keith Fowler
- "How many moths can you get in a buttercup flower?" by Keith Fowler
- "How now brown cow" by Keith Fowler
- "I was not going to mention it
- "I’m leaning on the gate post" by Keith Fowler
- "In my absence" by Keith Fowler
- "Into the Wilderness" by Keith Fowler
- “Isn’t she a beauty”
- "It had to happen" by Keith Fowler
- "It has been a game of two halves
- "It might have been ..." by Keith Fowler
- "It'll be that one or the other" by Keith Fowler
- "It’s been a hard day!" by Keith Fowler
- "It's not a sting in the tail" by Keith Fowler
- "It's not Stonehenge" by Keith Fowler
- "It’s only a flower" by Keith Fowler
- "It's SNOW FLEA time" by Keith Fowler
- "It's sunny in Horsehay" by Keith Fowler
- "It's the Sytch
- "It’s too hot!" by Keith Fowler
- "January 2023 outings" by Keith Fowler
- "Joy of Wildlife Chorale" by Keith Fowler
- "Joy of Wildlife Waddlers" by Keith Fowler
- "Just an ordinary day" by Keith Fowler
- "Just look at those eyes" by Keith Fowler
- "Lamproderma giganticum" by Keith Fowler
- "Lazy Days" by Keith Fowler
- "Local Patch" by Keith Fowler
- "Lots of gall" by Keith Fowler
- "Lots of water and a little bit of sunshine@ by Keith Fowler
- "Low Flying aircraft" by Keith Fowler
- "Lunch & Study" by Keith Fowler
- "Lunch" by Keith Fowler
- "Making history" by Keith Fowler
- "Manoeuvres" by Keith Fowler
- "March 2023 excursions" by Keith Fowle
- "More Beetle Frenzy" by Keith Fowler
- "More in Hope than Expectation" by Keith Fowler
- "More of the same" by Keith Fowler
- "New habitat choice?" by Keith Fowler
- "New Life" by Keith Fowler
- "Not quite to plan" by Keith Fowler
- "November notes" by Keith Fowler
- "Now you don't see it ... Now you do" by Keith Fowler
- "Nursery rhyme" by Keith Fowler
- "OH NO! It's not Trogulus!" by Keith Fowler
- "On the beach"
- "Our peaceful countryside" by Keith Fowler
- "Out of Shropshire" by Keith Fowler
- "Parts that others cannot reach" by Keith Fowler
- "Peace disturbed" by Keith Fowler
- "Pizza galore" by Keith Fowler
- "Potpourri
- "Present" by Keith Fowler
- "Quelle surprise!" by Keith Fowler
- "Rain
- "Rain and Cake" by Keith Fowler
- "Rain prevents play!" by Keith Fowler
- "Red Kite Day" by Keith Fowler
- "Road works and a puncture" by Keith Fowler
- "Rolling Hills" by Keith Fowler
- "Rudge Gallery" by Keith Fowler
- "Shark!" by Keith Fowler
- "Shiver me timbers" by Keith Fowler
- "Shock! County bug recorder finds a bug" by Keith Fowler
- "Silver-studded blue day" by Keith Fowler
- "Snail mail" by Keith Fowler
- "Snakefly surprises" by Keith Folwer
- "Sockless in Prees Heath" by Keith Fowler
- "Sockless in Shropshire" by Keith Fowler
- "Sound of Silence" by Keith Fowler
- "Spoilt surveyors" by Keith Fowler
- "Spring Treat" by Keith Fowler
- "sumer is icumen in" by Keith Fowler
- "Sun at last - for a bit of the day at least" by Keith Fowler
- "Tea
- "Telford’s best heathland" by Keith Fowler
- "The 58
- "The 58 - Episode II - Numbers 11 - 19" by Keith Fowler
- "The 58 - Episode III - A couple of the more difficult butterflies" by Keith Fowler
- "The 58 - Episode IV - Long Journeys" by Keith Fowler
- "The 58 - Episode V - A seed is planted" by Keith Fowler
- "The 58 - Episode VI - The seed flowers" by Keith Fowler
- "The 58 - Episode VII - An inglorious failure!" by Keith Fowler
- "The 58 - Episode VIII - Relentless progress" by Keith Fowler
- "The cats have turned" by Keith Fowler
- "The Eyes have it!" by Keith Fowler
- "The Great Atypus Hunt" by Nigel Cane-Honeysett
- "The Hunchback of Llanymynech" by Keith Fowler
- "The Joy of Mountaineering!" by Keith Fowler
- "The Magnificent Three" by Keith Fowler
- "The only way is Up" by Keith Fowler
- "The Scottish hoverfly" by Keith Fowler
- "The secret is out" by Keith Fowler
- "The Three Amigos" by Keith Fowler
- "This is a true story" by Keith Fowler
- "This is the weather" by Keith Fowler
- "Three for the price of one" by Keith Fowler
- "Time flies" by Keith Fowler
- "Triple Header" by Keith Fowler
- "Two hundred and nine feet tall" by Keith Fowler
- "Two shifts" by Keith Fowler
- "Two socks are better than one" by Keith Fowler
- "Up
- "Up of Down?" byKeith Fowler
- "Up on the Farm" by Keith Fowler
- "Up periscope" by Keith Fowler
- "Update - October – November 2022" by Keith Fowler
- "Valley of the Pseudoscorpions" by Keith Fowler
- "Wagon's Roll!" by Keith Fowler
- "Watching brief" by Keith Fowler
- "Westward Ho!" by Keith Fowler
- "Wet
- "Wet" by Keith Fowler
- "What a lot of Water violets" by Keith Fowler
- "What a magnificent slime mould" by Keith Fowler
- "What a view!" by Keith Fowler
- “Where’s my wellies?” by Keith Fowler
- "Where's the castle?" by Keith Fowler
- "Where's the chicory" by Keith Fowler
- "Wild Teams on the Long Mynd" by Keith Fowler
- "William Allport Leighton" by Keith Fowler
- "Windy" by Keith Fowler
- "Winter begins" by Keith Fowler
- "Wood white 6 Ladybird 0" by Kkeith Fowler
- "Yet more April showers!!" by Keith Fowler
- "You guessed it ..." by Keith Fowler
- 2011
- 2012
- A Forgetful Day - by Keith Fowler
- A sunny day in Shrewsbury - 16 April 2014 Margaret Mitchell
- All stages of life by Keith Fowler
- Allscott Settling Pools
- Ambushed! Keith Fowler
- An Exciting Day at Dudmaston by Margaret Mitchell
- Apley Castle 12-12-08
- Apley Castle 29-01-10
- Apley Castle Moth Night 18-08-2009
- Apley Castle Moth Night June 24th
- April Nature Notes from Pete Lambert
- Back to Basics by Keith Fowler
- Badger Watch - Secret Location
- Barracks Lane
- Beetle Bridge - Ercall Woods
- Benthall Edge Wood Fungi Foray - 9 October 2013 - Margaret Mitchell
- Bird’s-foot trefoil rules! by Keith Fowler
- Bloggers week off
- Bowers Yard
- Brian" by Keith Fowler
- but ..." by Keith Fowler
- Butterflies and Bees
- by Keith Fowler
- by Margaret Mitchell
- Coalmoor
- Common as muck! By Keith Fowler
- Coppicing and Working Horses in the Ercall LNR
- Dairy Pitts - Ercall Woods
- Death's-head Hawkmoth
- December 2012 Nature Notes - Pete Lambert
- December 2021" by Keith Fowler"
- Devil's Dingle
- Devil's Dingle 22-01-10
- Devil's Dingle et al - by Keith Fowler
- Devil's Dingle Moth Night 08-07-2011
- Doctor Kildare to the Rescue - by Keith Fowler
- Don't Panic! by Keith Fowler
- Dothill
- Dothill Walk
- Duelling “Super- Pooters” by Keith Fowler
- End of the line by Keith Fowler
- entomology and more tea" by David Williams
- Episode 1" by Keith Fowler
- Ercall Nest Boxes - Keith Fowler
- Exploration of the Lost World by Brian Herring
- far away" by Keith Fowler
- February 2022" by Keith Fowler
- Forest Glen
- Forest Glen Car Park
- Fritillaries flitter by - Keith Fowler
- Frog Serenade by Keith Fowler
- from Pete Lambert
- Fun in the sun by Keith Fowler
- fungi and industrial past" by Keith Fowler
- go away
- go away … It did!! by Keith Fowler
- Go Away!" by Keith Fowler
- Granville and Tweedale
- Granville Country Park
- Granville Country Park Butterfly Count - May 17
- Granville Local Nature Reserve
- Granville NR 22-03-11
- Grasses galore by Keith Fowler
- Greening of the Grey - by Keith Fowler
- Grimpo Nature Notes - June 2011
- Grimpo Nature Notes - September 2010
- Grimpo Nature Notes – November 2013 by Pete Lambert
- Grimpo Nature Notes – October 2013 by Pete Lambert
- Grimpo Nature Notes – September 2013 by Pete Lambert
- Grimpo Nature Notes November/December 2010
- hot
- hot" by Keith Fowler
- Hughley Brook
- It’s All Over... by Keith Fowler
- Joy of Invertebrates - The Hem report et al - by Keith Fowler
- June 25th
- Just one of those days by Keith Fowler
- Lawley Green Space
- Lea Quarry Spiderfest – 3 September 2014
- Lilleshall
- Lilleshall Hill 08-01-10
- March 2022" by Keith Fowler
- Marmers Covert
- May Nature Notes from Pete Lambert
- Mayday
- Mayday - Keith Fowler
- Mink and Un-Open Access Land - Keith Fowler
- Moth Night at Coalmoor – 5th July 2013 by Margaret Mitchell
- Mottey Meadows and Prees Heath - WFV Summer Excursion 28 June 2013
- Muxton Marshes
- my old friend" by Keith Fowler
- Nature Notes - April 2013 - Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes - Feb 2013 - Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes - Jan 2012 - Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes - January 20100
- Nature Notes - October 2012 - Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes -December - from Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes – August 2012 by Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes – July 2013 by Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes – June 2013 by Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes – March 2013 - Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes – May 2013 - Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes April 2010 by Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes April 2012 by Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes August 2011
- Nature Notes December 2011
- Nature Notes Feb 2012
- Nature Notes June 2012 by Pete Lambert
- Nature Notes MArch 2012
- Nature Notes May 2012 by Pete Lambert
- near Much Wenlock - 4 July 2014. Margaret Mitchell
- Netted and Potted by Keith Fowler
- Nipstone Rock 15-05-2010
- no sorry!" 2013 and all that" by Keith Fowler
- not the Stych" by Keith Fowler
- November 2021" by Keith Fowler
- November Nature Notes 2012 - Pete Lambert
- October 2011 Grimpo Notes
- October 2021 " by Keith Fowler
- Oops! By Keith Fowler
- Oops! Sorry by Keith Fowler
- Ouch! That hurt! by Keith Fowler
- Pied Flycatchers on the Ercall - 2014 by Stephen and Margaret Mitchell
- Pleasant surprises by Keith Fowler
- Potpourri
- Prees Heath and Whixall Moss Saturday
- Pretty in purple by Keith Fowler
- Rain
- Raining shieldbugs by Keith Fowler
- Randlay Valley Moth Night 10-06-2011
- Red Kites at Gigrin - Keith Fowler
- Return to Lea Quarry
- sand and ... insects by Keith Fowler
- sea
- September Nature Notes
- Shropshire! Not the Shire of Hereford" by Keith Fowler
- Springtime on the Ercall by Margaret Mitchell Wrekin Forest Volunteer
- St. Mark’s Day has passed
- Stoney Hill
- Sun
- Sundews and Dragons - by Keith Fowler
- sunny and warm" by Keith Fowler
- Telford – Wednesday 6 May
- Telford Town Park - Hedge-Laying
- Telford Town Park Bat Boxes
- Telford Town Park Moth Night
- That’s all folks - Keith Fowler
- The 58 - Episode IX - Rapid progress
- The Hem
- The Hem - Keith Fowler
- The Sun has got its Hat on
- the sun" by Keith Fowler
- The Wrekin Forest Volunteers go Kick Sampling - Nigel Cane-Honeysett
- The Wrekin Mammal Boxes 05-02-10
- The Wrekin Wakes 10-09-2011
- Thirteen + one by Keith Fowler
- UFO's discovered on The Wrekin
- up and away ... again!" by Keith Fowler
- up and away" by Keith Fowler
- Very few words required - Keith Fowler
- Was it 7 or was it 18? by Keith Fowler
- We are not the Staffordshire Invertebrate Group by Keith Fowler
- Welcome to Your WFV Blog
- wet
- wet" by Keith Fowler
- What a nice cone-head you have - by Keith Fowler
- Where are all the Shieldbugs? Keith Fowler
- Where is it? AGAIN...
- Where’s Brian?
- Whitchurch Drive
- Window of opportunity by Keith Fowler
- Window of Opportunity II by Keith Fowler
- Wrekin Moth Night 2010
- WuFuV's Xmas Party 02-12-11
- Yellow triangles by Keith Fowler