This impressive spider’s web was stretched across a gorse bush in Sutton Park. I couldn’t see any sign of the spider itself.
Harlequin ladybird larva
Lizards near Ludlow
Birds around Ludlow
These birds were seen during a couple of days’ stay in Ludlow earlier this month. It’s a little bit further afield than most postings, but it would just about have been possible to see them on a day trip. The jackdaw, above, was one of the flock in the centre of town, around the church. – This one was on the corner of the roof of Hosyer’s Alms-houses by the church – evidently a regular perch.
A swan feeding by Casemill Weir on the river Tame gave an unusual angle of view.
This swallow on a phone line appeared to be thinking: perhaps about the approaching flight south.
And this young heron was fishing from Mill Street Weir.
Hedgehog gathering leaves
Early one morning, early in August, this hedgehog was collecting dead leaves and carrying them back into a pile of pruned twigs. It may have started before I noticed it, and carried on for at least half an hour while I was there, though it made a couple of pauses to retreat into the twig pile when a neighbour’s cat came round on the prowl.