Archive of: Rye Harbour

  • Waitrose volunteer day at Rye Harbour

    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

     
  • A Precarious Lifestyle

    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

     
  • Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - September 2018

    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.

     
  • The Showman at Camber Castle

    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.

     
  • Management for Bumblebees at Rye Harbour

    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.

     
  • A Bike* of Bees

    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

     
  • Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - August 2018

    03 September 2018

    Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - August 2018

    One bird which is typical of autumn passage at Rye Harbour is the whinchat.

     
  • Old Photos

    17 August 2018

    Old Photos

    Old photographs of the Sussex countryside can sometimes tell a good story. This one from 1947…

     
  • Natural Velcro

    16 August 2018

    Natural Velcro

    Lesser Burdock is a tall plant of the daisy family that has flowers with hooks or burrs.

     
  • Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - July 2018

    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.

     
  • Golfers raise £13k for Rye Harbour Discovery Centre

    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

     
  • Wild and Domesticated Carrots

    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.