Archive of: Rye Harbour
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18 June 2019
Flies with Thighs
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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17 June 2019
Enough fish in the sea?
The breeding terns in Rye Bay have been struggling to maintain their breeding populations, and it’s seems to be getting worse.
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06 June 2019
May 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
May saw the first records of the very rare whelk jumping spider (Pellenes tripunctatus) on the reserve for 2019.
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01 May 2019
April 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
This is the month of amazing changes in the natural world with birds arriving / leaving / migrating and many insects and flowers appearing. We enjoyed some exceptionally warm weather, a few April showers and lots of lovely wildlife.
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09 April 2019
Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Discovery Centre
On Monday 8th April, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new Rye Harbour Discovery Centre.
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01 April 2019
March 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
Bird highlight during March was a splendid male ring-necked duck initially seen at Castle Water on the 27th.
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30 March 2019
April is the cruellest month
When T.S. Eliot wrote the first words of “The Waste Land” - April is the cruellest month, many people thought it was because the life and colour of spring ….
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26 March 2019
Doing the moth math
From 2004, when I began my employment at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, to late 2018 I ran a moth trap at Lime Kiln Cottage.
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20 March 2019
Help us secure the future of Sussex Wildlife Trust's first visitor centre
Sussex Wildlife Trust is making an appeal to its members and supporters to secure the future of the new Discovery Centre currently being built at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
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18 March 2019
Interview with Friends' Chair Cliff Dean
After Cliff Dean, Chair of the Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, has handed over the key to Lime Kiln Cottage to Baxall Construction for the start of works on the Discovery Centre, we speak to him about what the project means to him.
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14 March 2019
Behind the Lens with Dr Barry Yates
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve manager Barry Yates talks to us about managing the reserve, and how he came to discover his love of wildlife photography
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13 March 2019
Work begins on the Rye Harbour Discovery Centre
Sussex Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce that Baxall Construction has started work on the Rye Harbour Discovery Centre.