Insects are more rarely portayed in street art than birds or mammals. Here are a few I have come across.
The green grasshopper (for all I know, a cricket or cicada) was part of the window display in a shop in the French Atlantic resort of St Jean de Luz.
The wrought iron doorstep bannister, with dragonflies among bullrushes, was in the Exe estuary village of Topsham. And the dragonfly doorknocker is at Newbridge.
Modern ceramic dragon occasionally on house roof ridges, here a house near to Penn Common.
The old-looking and rusty doorknocker was in the picturesque Cotswold village of Chipping Campden, and the indoor picture is of a medieval weathervane now in Exeter museum. It’s a wyvern.
The doorlatch is from the medieval parish church at Meriden, and again looks like it might be ancient.
Mobile phone mast near Wombourne, designed to blend into the landscape because it is disguised as a tree. The plan doesn’t work.
The mast is visible from a wide area to the west of Wolverhampton. Here seen from the opposite side of the field it is on the edge of: for comparison, a more distant view.
Graffiti of a robin and a kingfisher on bridges on the Railway Walk, Wombourne way, seem to me to be a similar style to the work on the now demolished buildings in Graiseley.
The owl on a stump carving, next to a footpath passing Belvide Reservoir outside Brewood, fooled me in silhouette from a distance.
The woodpecker is perhaps more ornament that use – hence the need for a repair with glue.
Owl doorknockers and the traditional cocks for weathervanes seem to predominate, but there are a few variations here.
The wrought iron heron and owl are from the former Wolverhampton Environmental Centre gate. The impressive weathervane of the owl swooping to catch a mouse is from a house just of the Compton Road.
The rat (main picture) is from a statue on a bridge in Berlin portraying St Gertrude, a seventh century nun whose powers include the ability to disperse plagues of rodents. She is also a patron saint of cat lovers, cat owners and their cats, gardeners, herbalists, farmlands, good lodgings, travellers, pilgrims, recently dead people, graves, poor people, widows and Nivelles, Belgium, where her nunnery was. The statue has rats and mice around the base, all polished as they are regularly fingered for luck by pedestrians passing that way.
The cow (two pictures from different angles) is a Simmental bull, spotted in the Hinksford Mobile Home Park, seen from the canal towpath.
The elephant is just opposite the High Town terminus of the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway. The horse vane, and the sheep and lamb / pig and piglet fixtures are on houses near either end of the farm track which is a westward continuation of Castlecroft Road.
Lions heads are common among doorknockers. These two were variations on the more usual patterns. The ram’s head came from Ludlow, and the bear from Warwick.
The mole – a cutout from a now lichen-covered metal – is from the elaborate gate of the former Wolverhampton Environmental Centre. It gives access to land the Council is currently proposing to sell for housing development.