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Fauna (photo album 2)
 Elephant Hawk-moth caterpillarFound wandering across the grass. Length approx 8 cm. Image 1 of 2: Barbara Mayall 26 August 2021 |  Elephant Hawk-moth caterpillarImage 2 of 2: Barbara Mayall 26 August2021 |  Oak Eggar moth (m)Lasiocampa quercus. Source states: males fly by day in a zig-zag fashion, particularly in afternoon sunshine" but this one came indoors during a heavy rainstorm. Image: Rosemary Winson 30 July 2021 |
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 HedgehogA welcome visitor to a garden in Castle Keep. Image: Janet Death., JUly 2021 |  Silky webs adorn church hedge 1Miss Havisham's interior decorators are here spinning their silky wares outside the church. They are the very hungry* and gregarious caterpillars of the Orchard Ermine moth Yponomeula padella. |  Silky webs adorn church hedge 2Their numbers, their clumping and their communal webs are defences against predators. St Lawrence Church hedge May 2021 kmoc *(Eric Carle, author of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar", died last week.) |
 Heron Stratford MillImage: Kerry O'Connor April 2021 |  Deer nr Phillips Lane24 September 2020 Image: Rosemary Winson |  Vapour Moth caterpillarImage: Barbara Mayall July 2020 |
 Mayfly Image 1 of 2May fly - just moulted. 18 May 2020 Image: Barbara Mayall |  Mayfly Image 2 of 2Mayfly, having just moulted, is drying off on radish leaves. 18 May 2020 Image: Barbara Mayall |  Deer 6 May 2020Deer in a field of Linseed, just east of the Devenish. 6 May 2020 Image: Rosemary Winson |
 Sedge WarblerSedge Warbler, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, on Old Sarum, Sept 2019, will be going home in the next month or so to Africa, south of the Sahara, about 2500 miles. As the Sahara is expanding the journey is getting longer and harder. Those with the most fat as aviation fuel will make it without stopping. Image: Kerry O'Connor |  SwallowsSwallows, Hirundo rustica, gathering and ready to migrate. Stratford Road/Mill Lane junction, 26 August 2019. Image: Rosemary Winson |  Painted LadyA long distance migrant, a Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui, on Wild Marjoram, Origanum vulgare, outer ditch, Old Sarum Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |
 Speckled WoodSpeckled Wood, Pararge aegeria, likes honeydew from treetop aphids but here visits wild marjoram in the trough of univallate Old Sarum's ditch. Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Common Garden SnailCommon Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum) inspecting a Dryad's saddle (Polyporus squamosus) fungus on western slopes of Old Sarum Aug 2019. Both are edible! Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Canada GeeseOn the Avon July 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |
 Cinnabar Moth caterpillarTyria jacobae on Ragwort July 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Common Red Soldier BeetlesRhagonycha fulva on Valerian July 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis. Just one of a flock that visited a water supply in a Stratford garden. July 2019 Image: Rosemary Winson |
 Green Woodpecker (m)Picus viridis. Nicely camoflagued here but more often seen digging for ants in my lawn! July 2019 Image: Rosemary Winson |