Black-winged Stilt Diary 2021
11 July 2021
Black-winged Stilts are a rare sight in Britain, but a pair nested at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in 2021 for the first time.
Archive of: Barry Yates
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Swallowtail Diary
30 May 2021
This is the ongoing account of the Swallowtail butterfly at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in 2020.
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A cold, dry April meant fewer moths
10 May 2021
A good indication of the poor spring for invertebrates comes from the moth trapping carried out locally near Rye.
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Bird legs and feet
25 April 2021
There is such variation in the feet and legs of birds that you can sometimes recognise birds on those parts alone
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Spring Bird Arrivals in Rye Bay
25 April 2021
The birdwatchers around Rye have been looking more at their local birds this year. So we thought it would be interesting to log the arrival of birds as they travel north
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A closer look at Frogbit
07 March 2021
Frogbit is a floating plant of freshwater. Its leaves look like a tiny water lily, but the flowers have just three delicate white petals.
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Winter Bats
05 March 2021
In our effort to identify and understand the wildlife that lives in Sussex, bats have always been tricky to identify
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Curlew at Rye Harbour
15 February 2021
The sound of the Curlew is distinctive and reminds me of remote parts of Britain….
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A Year at Rye Harbour talk - Answers
29 January 2021
During the Sussex Wildlife Trust webinar on 28th January - A Year at Rye Harbour - there were many questions and we only had chance to answer a few after the talk, so here we try to answer them all.
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Another Ruin
02 January 2021
On the shore at Rye Harbour sits a ruin we call Gasson’s Ruin