Ivy League
19 October 2019
At this time of the year when relatively few plants are still in flower, Ivy is an excellent late season nectar source for many insects.
Archive of: Chris Bentley
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September 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
01 October 2019
Highlight during September were several sightings of Stone Curlew on the Beach Reserve and Harbour Farm.
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August 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
31 August 2019
A feature of the moth trap at this time of the year is the Pale Grass Eggar, a very rare species which in the UK is only found on the shingle of Dungeness and Rye Harbour.
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July 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
01 August 2019
Highlight this month has been the relatively large numbers of Sussex Emerald in the moth trap…
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Sussex Emerald at Rye Harbour
23 July 2019
The Sussex Emerald moth is a very rare beast in the UK, with breeding traditionally restricted to the disturbed shingle habitats at Dungeness in Kent
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June 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
30 June 2019
Turtle Dove is becoming an increasingly rare bird on the reserve (and indeed nationally), so it was good to get the first reserve record for 2019 from Castle Farm on the 1st.
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Flies with Thighs
18 June 2019
Grubbing about on the shingle recently looking for rare spiders I came across this hoverfly with swollen femora near the Mary Stanford lifeboat House.
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May 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
06 June 2019
May saw the first records of the very rare whelk jumping spider (Pellenes tripunctatus) on the reserve for 2019.
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March 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
01 April 2019
Bird highlight during March was a splendid male ring-necked duck initially seen at Castle Water on the 27th.
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Doing the moth math
26 March 2019
From 2004, when I began my employment at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, to late 2018 I ran a moth trap at Lime Kiln Cottage.