Chocolate-tip and Brown Argus

female Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

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On May 31^st I found a Chocolate-tip moth on the stairs and photographed a small brown Ground beetle from Mill Hill.

 Tuesday we lunched at Arundel Wetland Trust where we saw two Moorhen chicks and a Cetti’s Warbler calling loudly in the reeds outside the entrance. During the afternoon the sun came out so I headed to Chantry Hill to find the Brown Argus that Neil had photographed. There were plenty on the hillside, plus male and female Common Blues, Treble-bar moths, a micro moth called Agapeta mamana,  Grizzled and Dingy Skippers,  a Wall and Cinnabar moths.

Chocolate-tip Clostera curtula

Chocolate-tip Clostera curtula

Ground beetle, Poecilus cupreus from Mill Hill

Arundel WWT:

Cetti's Warbler, Cettia cetti

Moorhen chick, Gallinula chloropus

Moorhen chicks

Chantry Hill:

Agapeta hamana

Brown Argus, Aricia agestis

Brown Argus, Aricia agestis

Brown Argus, Aricia agestis

Brown Argus, Aricia agestis

views from Chantry Hill

Cinnabar, Tyria jacobaceae

Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

female Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus

Dingy Skipper, Erynnis tages

Dingy Skipper, Erynnis tages

Grizzled Skipper, Pyrgus malvae

Rock-rose, Helianthemum chamaecistus

Treble-bar, Aplocera plagiata