Archive of: Barry Yates
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09 January 2022
Rye Harbour Seals
Last November local photographer Tony Ham was able to read the flipper tags on two of the seals and it’s interesting to know where they came from.
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29 December 2021
Your Wildlife in 2022
The start of the New Year is always an opportunity to begin a new project, perhaps a personal wildlife one.
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14 December 2021
Reedbed Mice
This tiny mouse lives in our reedbeds and perhaps this is its original habitat.
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25 November 2021
Rye Harbour's Piscivores
November was a great month for animals that eat fish at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
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05 November 2021
Shingle Trucks back at Rye Harbour
The big shingle moving trucks have arrived today to start the winter movement of shingle along the Nature Reserve private road.
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11 July 2021
Black-winged Stilt Diary 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.
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30 May 2021
Swallowtail Diary
This is the ongoing account of the Swallowtail butterfly at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in 2020.
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10 May 2021
A cold, dry April meant fewer moths
A good indication of the poor spring for invertebrates comes from the moth trapping carried out locally near Rye.
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25 April 2021
Bird legs and feet
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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25 April 2021
Spring Bird Arrivals in Rye Bay
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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07 March 2021
A closer look at Frogbit
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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05 March 2021
Winter Bats
In our effort to identify and understand the wildlife that lives in Sussex, bats have always been tricky to identify