On July 25 I received a notification from British Divers Marine Life Rescue that a seal pup was reported at the beach at Angmering. I attended and found some lovely people were concerned about it and fortunately someone knew to phone BDMLR. I reported the condition to BDLMR - left eye injured, and they said the RSPCA would attend. The feisty pup (one metre long) was wrapped by an experienced medic, a young lady who works for Wadars. She advised it was underweight and put it into a carry cage and we loaded it onto the RSPCA vehicle. It was then taken to a specialist veterinary in Hastings. The pup is a Common Seal, possibly from Chichester Harbour where both British seal species breed.
On July 27 we visited Arundel WWT and saw Red Admirals, Peacocks, Whites, a Gatekeeper, a Dingy Footman, a Small Purple and Gold moth in the butterfly garden, a dead Snout moth in a spider's web in a hide and a Poplar Bent-wing mine on a Black Poplar leaf. A swallow appeared in the hide but I couldn't see the young in the nest.
On July 27 we visited Arundel WWT and saw Red Admirals, Peacocks, Whites, a Gatekeeper, a Dingy Footman, a Small Purple and Gold moth in the butterfly garden, a dead Snout moth in a spider's web in a hide and a Poplar Bent-wing mine on a Black Poplar leaf. A swallow appeared in the hide but I couldn't see the young in the nest.
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| Common Seal pup |
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| Arundel WWT |
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| Small Purple and Gold, Pyrausta aurata |
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| Bird's-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus |
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| Black Poplar leaf, Populus nigra with Poplar Bent-wing micro-moth mine, Phyllocnistis unipunctella |
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| Buff-Tailed Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris |
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| Common Pond Skater, Gerris lacustris |
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| Coot and cootling, Fulica atra |
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| dead Snout, Hypena proboscidalis |
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| Dingy Footman, Eilema griseola |
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| Dingy Footman |
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| Greater Burdock, Arctium lappa |
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| Greater Burdock, Arctium lappa |
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| Large-flowered Evening-primrose, Oenothera glazioviana |
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| Marsh Mallow, Althaea officinalis |
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| Meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria |
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| Peacock, Inachis io |
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| Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta |
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| Swallow, Hirundo rustica |
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| Tansy, Tanacetum vulgare |
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| Tansy |
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| Teasel, Dipsacus fullonum |
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| Wild Marjoram, Origanum vulgare |
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