Archive of: Rye Harbour
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24 October 2018
Waitrose volunteer day at Rye Harbour
Waitrose staff worked hard clearing willow from the reedbeds at a recent corporate volunteer day at Rye Harbour
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04 October 2018
A Precarious Lifestyle
Babington’s Orache is a low growing plant that has a precarious lifestyle, growing in the mobile shingle below the line of the winter storms
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01 October 2018
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - September 2018
One of the characteristic invertebrates of Rye Harbour at this time of the year is the sea-aster bee.
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29 September 2018
The Showman at Camber Castle
This was one of the events to raise awareness and funds for the Rye Harbour Discovery Centre Appeal - it raised just over £2,000.
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24 September 2018
Management for Bumblebees at Rye Harbour
Over the last five years we have been managing some of our grassland for bumblebees, and every year between May and August we have also been counting the bees to monitor the effects.
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19 September 2018
A Bike* of Bees
At Rye Harbour, there are two quite similar species of ‘autumn colletes’ active at the moment, ivy bee (Colletes hederae) and sea-aster bee (Colletes halophilus), also known as saltmarsh bee
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03 September 2018
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - August 2018
One bird which is typical of autumn passage at Rye Harbour is the whinchat.
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17 August 2018
Old Photos
Old photographs of the Sussex countryside can sometimes tell a good story. This one from 1947…
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16 August 2018
Natural Velcro
Lesser Burdock is a tall plant of the daisy family that has flowers with hooks or burrs.
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01 August 2018
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - July 2018
Perhaps the most exciting wildlife find this month was a southern migrant hawker found on Harbour Farm on the 25th, the first reserve record for this rare migrant dragonfly.
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25 July 2018
Golfers raise £13k for Rye Harbour Discovery Centre
Generous golfers from all over Kent and Sussex raised an astounding £13,000 towards the exciting new Discovery Centre for Rye Harbour Nature Reserve at a golf challenge event
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21 July 2018
Wild and Domesticated Carrots
Wild Carrot (Daucus carota) has become a common flower of the grassland and some shingle areas of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.