Animals, birds and insects in our garden
Although we only have a fairly small garden, we do get a wide variety of fauna either resident, visiting or just flying over. These are just a few shots of those I have managed to photograph
A Comma butterfly on the door-frame
A Gatekeeper butterfly
A Painted Lady butterfly
Another Painted Lady
and another Painted Lady
Peacock butterflies
A Peacock butterfly
A Small White butterfly
A rather battered Ringlet butterfly
Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawkmoth
Caterpillar of the Vapourer moth
The male Vapourer moth (the female has only vestigial wings)
Underside of the male Vapourer moth (conveniently posed on the kitchen window)
An unknown moth
The same moth - it's actually only about a centimetre across
A Brimstone moth
The Deep Brown Dart moth
This Southern Hawker dragonfly perched on a garden ornament
Most Ladybirds are black on red
We used to get a lot of Kestrels but lately there have been far more Common Buzzards soaring above the garden
A Fieldfare in a nearby tree
A Great Spotted Woodpecker on next door's apple tree
A Green Woodpecker feeding on ants in our lawn
A Green Woodpecker on our apple tree
An evening Robin
A Sparrow Hawk in our apple tree
A wren in our apple tree (shame about the branch in the way)
When we had a pond, frogs spawned every year
Tadpoles at various stages of development
A female Smooth Newt from our pond
Another view of the female Smooth Newt
The Oak Bush Cricket
Another Oak Bush Cricket, this time on our kitchen ceiling
A Brown-lipped Banded Snail
A spider
Another spider
A bee
Bumble bee
A Squirrel on our fence (one of many that frequent our garden)
We also get cats of course (I'm watching you!)