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Nice, looks like an Eyed Hawkmoth. Eyed Hawk-moth


Interesting, your site claims

Flies from May to July in one generation.

So assuming its a bit too late to fly this year, does the caterpiller chrysalise for the next eight to nine months ?
 

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Interesting, your site claims

Flies from May to July in one generation.

So assuming its a bit too late to fly this year, does the caterpiller chrysalise for the next eight to nine months ?
Not really up on the lives of moths, just think it's late.
 

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Not really up on the lives of moths, just think it's late.

Perhaps, but since the eggs must be laid no later than July, I doubt they stick around until spring since the trees lose their leaves.
 

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Apparently they overwinter as Pupae in the ground.
 

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Makes sense, perhaps the chrysalis I posted last week was one of the brood.
 

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Went a nice walk in the beautiful countryside less than one mile from our home, the Ribble Valley, went back to where I was born via the old churchyard and came across a young Roe deer a few yards from a busy dual carriageway
 

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Wow but that's scary.
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I harvested the crop of 'sunflowers' earlier, since the rain has brought a plague of snails larger than usual.

Just over 1.7kgs, approximately double the spud mass that I put in the pots, the gastropods appear to have polished off at least the same amount, if not more in the last three months.
 

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Spotted a heron, patiently waiting for a salmon to leap the weir
 

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Quite a rare visitor ( Nuthatch ) to the bird table here..... sorry for the quality - screenshot taken from video - taken from t.v. screen .

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Looks like a bandit:D
 

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This was pulled from a vine / creeper a couple of days ago , cutting back some bushes and a large holly tree following a dish install. It was green when I took it down but is now changing rapidly from light green, through bright yellow to a deeper orange. About the size of a quail's egg.

I've no idea what the plant was is, but this 'fruit ' was some 30' up in the canopy and I couldn't waste the opportunity for some clever answers on here - And no, it's not a potato(e).

I'll leave it for a day or so to see what other colours it changes to, before opening up.
 

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Citrus like inside? then I suspect they are citrus japonica otherwise known as cumquats. My mum used to have a small bush in her garden

 

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Cheekie chappie on my walk today
 

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Cheekie chappie on my walk today
No photo, but I saw one of our "local" robins down the garden this afternoon, but he then rapidly disappeared into the holly tree - OTOH, haven't seen any of the multitude of sparrows that were around several months ago, and usually resided in that holly tree. So, where have they gone?? :confused
 

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No photo, but I saw one of our "local" robins down the garden this afternoon, but he then rapidly disappeared into the holly tree - OTOH, haven't seen any of the multitude of sparrows that were around several months ago, and usually resided in that holly tree. So, where have they gone?? :confused
The simple answer is no, practically all house sparrows are sedentary, this means that they are non-migratory and remain in virtually the same place throughout the year maybe a little less active in the winter months, but they are not far away.
 
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