Archive of: Rye Harbour
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01 November 2016
October 2016: Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
This month saw a major influx of ring ouzel, with six on Harbour Farm the 8th, three on Harbour Farm on the 10th and an amazing 85 at Castle Water on the 13th, by far the largest number ever recorded on the nature reserve (before this year the maximum was two!).
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03 October 2016
September 2016: Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
One regular but uncommon wader which turns up at Rye Harbour at this time of year is the curlew sandpiper, and this year was no exception with small numbers present on the reserve during September.
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18 September 2016
Carved in stone
The turf-covered shingle ridges of Castle Farm and Castle Water, near Rye, are too inhospitable for oak trees but…
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10 September 2016
How do you view the countryside?
Is it the beauty of the countryside that appeals to you, or the patterns, or the plants, or animals, or the tranquility?
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01 September 2016
August 2016: Rye Harbour
August saw the addition of yet another plant species to the reserve list with the discovery of a single plant of common sea lavender near the Mary Stanford lifeboat house on the 25th.
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22 August 2016
Tots back to school for woodland fun
Sussex Wildlife Trust Nature Tots are back for more muddy woodland fun and games in Henfield, Brighton, Horsham, Crawley, Eastbourne and on the beach in Rye bay this September. Bushcraft activities for children aged 3-5 years, accompanied by an adult.
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02 August 2016
July 2016: Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
One of the characteristic plants of Rye Harbour at this time of the year is red hemp-nettle. This inconspicuous little relative of the mints and dead-nettles, with its red flowers and nettle-like leaves, grows on sparsely vegetated habitats on the Beach Reserve and Harbour Farm, often where the ground has been disturbed.
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25 July 2016
Breeding Charadriiformes at Rye Harbour
Gulls, terns, skuas, waders and auks make up a large order of mostly wetland birds…
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01 May 2016
April 2016: Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
Bird highlight during April was a stone-curlew which was seen briefly on Harbour Farm on the 28th.
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27 April 2016
Natura 2000 - the European network for nature
The third of our blog series about the EU Referendum and Sussex Wildlife, looks at ‘Natura 2000’ - the formal term for the European network of protected areas established through the nature directives.
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13 April 2016
Spring at Last!
With the arrival of spring weather at Rye Harbour I have been out and about looking for a couple of rare bee species, and yesterday I managed to find one!
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31 March 2016
March 2016: Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
March produced the first booming bittern of the year, with a single male heard regularly at Castle Water from the 12th.