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!)