Archive of: Rye Harbour
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18 July 2018
Feeling The Pressure
Recent high air pressure has affected our saline wetlands.
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04 July 2018
Let the train take the strain
… was the 1988 slogan to encourage people to use trains, and 30 years later there is an even greater need to encourage the use of public transport.
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01 July 2018
June 2018 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
For many of our breeding seabirds, June is the climax of their breeding season.
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20 June 2018
Rye Harbour Discovery Centre funding boost from Gala Concert
Classical music lovers helped raise £2500 towards the new Discovery Centre at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve on Saturday (16 June) with a spectacular Gala Concert by the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra and Chamber Choir.
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30 May 2018
May 2018 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
Easterly winds for much of the early part of the month resulted in a real bonanza of rare birds during May.
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28 May 2018
Stonerunner at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
A local name for ringed plover is Stonerunner, because it nests on the shingle and the adults and chicks run over the stones.
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30 April 2018
April 2018 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
Highlight during April was two black-winged stilt on Harbour Farm between the 8th and 10th of the month.
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23 April 2018
A Day To Remember
I had a fantastic day last Friday with noted entomologist Steven Falk and the Wildlife Trust ecologist Graeme Lyons looking for rare bees at Castle Water.
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13 April 2018
The Stinking Hawksbeard Story
In the 1980s the Dandelion like Stinking Hawksbeard became extinct in Britain.
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12 April 2018
Massive Euro boost for Rye Harbour Discovery Centre project
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve’s proposed Discovery Centre project is celebrating another major award, this time for a huge £900,000 from the European Union.
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03 April 2018
March 2018 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
Highlight during March were two sightings of spoonbill, with birds on Flat Beach on the 7th and 30th when two were seen.
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13 March 2018
Huge funding boost for Rye Harbour Nature Reserve project
Plans for the new Discovery Centre being developed for Rye Harbour Nature Reserve received a massive boost this week with the news that not one – but three – major funding organisations have agreed to award over £1.75 million to the scheme.