Mystery Larvae

On Friday 27th March, an essential trip to fill up with food supplies at Tesco and then the Petrol station heard several Chiff- Chaffs calling. Good to see Rene in the store (albeit at 3 metres distance) and chance meetings with both Paul & Jane and Phi again at least 3 metres distance). From the garden today, a male Sparrowhawk flew over several times, whilst up to 3 Linnets perched and one was singing on Fallowfields. A Stock Dove was on the TV aerial briefly. A caterpillar/ larvae found on a dwarf Hibiscus leaf turned out to be a Small Yellow Underwing Moth, my thanks to Richard L for the ID, I have just ordered his new book. We do get a lot of the adult moths flying around the garden usually later on in the year. Both the Peacock butterfly (seen very briefly) and the Dark- edged Bee Fly (a little more obliging) were seen again.