Archive

  • Behind the Lens with Sara Humphrey

    21 March 2020

    Behind the Lens with Sara Humphrey

    We talk to ‘Sussex’ Sara Humphrey about her love of wildlife, her photography and visiting nature reserves by public transport

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Four

    21 March 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Four

    The plants in my garden are beginning to bloom and, as it’s still a bit early for many pollinating insects, some of our first flowers are banking on the breeze to spread the love.

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Three

    20 March 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Three

    Just as I was returning to the kitchen I heard a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming loudly from way across the road on an oak tree in a neighbour’s garden.

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Two

    19 March 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Two

    Watching a pair of Long-tailed Tits this afternoon in the willow tree.

     
  • Corona Wildlife Diary: Day One

    18 March 2020

    Corona Wildlife Diary: Day One

    As the world shuts down around us the uplifting role that wildlife plays in our lives becomes more vital than ever. Michael Blencowe is going to keep a daily diary of what he finds around his garden.

     
  • Our response to Coronavirus

    18 March 2020

    Our response to Coronavirus

    We have been assessing the Covid-19 situation daily and are constantly reviewing all of our planned events, taking sensible steps to protect the health and safety of staff, volunteers and members of the public.

     
  • Avocets return

    17 March 2020

    Avocets return

    In the last few weeks some familiar friends have returned to Rye Harbour in good numbers for the nesting season.​

     
  • Help kit out our new education zone

    16 March 2020

    Help kit out our new education zone

    Sussex Wildlife Trust has launched a new crowdfunding campaign, to help us kit out the environmental educational facility within the Rye Harbour Discovery Centre.

    This facility will allow the learning and engagement team to host school excursions and adult education, and this means visitors of all ages can learn more about the rare and special wildlife at the reserve.

     
  • Eastbourne Group Walk at Arlington Reservoir

    13 March 2020

    Eastbourne Group Walk at Arlington Reservoir

    An early spring walk at Arlington Reservoir

     
  • All things need a name

    10 March 2020

    All things need a name

    Nomenclature is the science of naming, with rules and systems for organising species and giving each one an official two-part title. But there is also an art to the naming of things and often a sense of magic, especially when it comes to common names.

     
  • Goose Barnacle, Barnacle Goose

    06 March 2020

    Goose Barnacle, Barnacle Goose

    Goose Barnacles, can be found in their thousands still clinging to their driftwood raft on the strandline, They once puzzled people for hundreds of years.

     
  • Have your say about the Natural Environment in Horsham District

    05 March 2020

    Have your say about the Natural Environment in Horsham District

    We have received lots of enquiries from people concerned about how the natural environment is being considered in the Horsham Local Plan and how they can respond to the public consultation.