John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar 1827

Now summer is in flower and natures hum
Is never silent round her sultry bloom
Insects as small as dust are never done
Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun

Damselflies and some Dragonflies on the wing as well as many species of butterflies. Butterflies include: Large White, Small White, Green Veined White, Orange Tip, Clouded Yellow, Brimstone, Red Admiral, Painted Lady, Small Tortoiseshell, Speckled Wood, The Wall, Meadow Brown, Small Heath, Ringlet, Common Blue, Brown Argus, Small Copper, Small Skipper, Large Skipper.

Hedges and trees may be draped with the large silky communal webs of the Ermine Moth containing many caterpillars.

Lots of fledgling birds about this month including Blackbird, Robin, Wren, Starling, Blue Tit and Great Tit.

Greenfinch, Chaffinch, House Sparrow, Wood Pigeon, Crow, Rook, Magpie, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Pheasant, Red legged partridge, are all to be seen.

Summer visitors - Swifts, Swallows and Martins circling above. See this page for an item on Swifts in Dry Drayton.

Unusual Dry Drayton sightings published by the Cambridgeshire Bird Club

30/6/2008 - Barn Owl, Little Owl, South of Church at 21.40 (Ken and Maggie Hook)

26/6/2008 - Red Kite over 16.25 (Ken Hook)

Reported in the July 2010 Newsletter by Dr and Mrs David V Alford

21 June One red kite high, circling in the south 12.00-15.00

22 June 2010 a pair, relatively low and on 24 June one bird gliding south to north 12.00-15.00.

Muntjac deer can often be seen on the road verge between Madingley and Dry Drayton. In June 2005 one was eating lettuces in a garden in Pettitts Lane! In June 2018 almost all corn on the cob growing on the village allotments was eaten by Muntjac

Foxes are more often smelt than seen. Badgers are here, but a rarer sight. Squirrels and Rabbits are much in evidence. A small number of black mutations of the grey squirrel can be seen in the village.