Tern and Pheasant chicks and a Clouded Border

Pheasants, Phasianus colchicus

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Yesterday afternoon I wandered around a small meadow near Arundel and found four new moths, two of which I managed to identify. I then spend twenty minutes in the Arundel Wetland Trust before it closed and saw a Tern chick at the Sand Martin hide, and Pheasant chicks outside the reception centre.

Black-headed Gull chick, Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Black-headed Gull with chick

Black-tailed Skimmer, Orthetrum cancellatum

micro-moth: Chrysoteuchia culmella 

Chrysoteuchia culmella

Clouded Border, Lomaspilis marginata

Common Tern, Sterna hirundo

Common Tern chick

Common Tern, Sterna hirundo

micro-moth - id needed

micro-moth 2 - id needed

micro-moth 2

Pheasant chick, Phasianus colchicus

Pheasant, Phasianus colchicus

it's raining mum, can we come in?

four chicks tucked up under mum