Archive of: Rye Harbour

  • Flies with Thighs

    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.

     
  • Enough fish in the sea?

    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.

     
  • May 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings

    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.

     
  • April 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings

    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.

     
  • Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Discovery Centre

    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.

     
  • March 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings

    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.

     
  • April is the cruellest month

    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 ….

     
  • Doing the moth math

    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.

     
  • Help us secure the future of Sussex Wildlife Trust's first visitor centre

    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.

     
  • Interview with Friends' Chair Cliff Dean

    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.

     
  • Behind the Lens with Dr Barry Yates

    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

     
  • Work begins on the Rye Harbour Discovery Centre

    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.