Archive of: Rye Harbour
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30 January 2020
January 2020 - Rye Harbour wildlife
This month continued a good run of Knot numbers on the reserve, with at least 100 present on Flat Beach
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26 January 2020
Glassworts
they are a flowering plant with what must be the smallest of flowers.
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21 January 2020
New family beach cleans at Rye Harbour
It’s good to report some positive news about the environment. Barry Yates and team at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve report that they are finding less litter on the beach, because more visitors have been taking their rubbish home with them, and some are conducting their own ‘two minute beach cleans’.
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07 January 2020
Celebrate World Wetlands Day 2020 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Wetlands are enormously important. They help provide clean water, storm protection and biodiversity. So what exactly are wetlands?
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06 January 2020
December 2019 - Rye Harbour Wildlife
It was good to see a Smew on the reserve this month, with a ‘redhead’ (i.e. female or immature) present on the Quarry from the 9th until the end of the month.
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06 January 2020
Dip into the world of dabbling ducks
Ducks can be split into two broad groups: dabblers and divers. As the name suggests, diving ducks feed mainly by diving underwater, using their strong feet (and sometimes their wings) to swim. Dabbling ducks, however, feed predominantly at the surface, sometimes even grazing on land. Many dabblers can often be seen upending, with their heads underwater and their bums in the air.
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02 January 2020
Nathusius Pipistrelles at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
The Nathusius Pipistrelle has been known to migrate across mainland Europe for many years, however their movements into and out of the British Isles has been little known
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31 December 2019
Review of 2019 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Well that was a challenging year. The 50th year of the nature reserve was one of preparing the foundations
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10 December 2019
Oil on Sussex beaches
One aspect of our seas has greatly improved in recent years - oil dumped by shipping…
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08 December 2019
Gnats All Folks!
This year I have been carrying out a survey of the invertebrates of the saline lagoons at Rye Harbour and am currently in the process of identifying the samples collected during the summer.
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01 December 2019
November 2019 - Rye Harbour sightings
Bird highlight during November was a Long-tailed Duck seen briefly on Harbour Farm on the 10th.
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17 November 2019
A Remedy for the Winter Blues
I spent a very rewarding couple of hours with trust ecologist Graeme Lyons and visiting naturalist Ryan Clarke last weekend looking for invertebrates on the Beach Reserve.