July 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
01 August 2019
Highlight this month has been the relatively large numbers of Sussex Emerald in the moth trap…
Archive of: Wetland 2
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June 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
30 June 2019
Turtle Dove is becoming an increasingly rare bird on the reserve (and indeed nationally), so it was good to get the first reserve record for 2019 from Castle Farm on the 1st.
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Sussex Wildlife Trust responds to news of Ofwat penalties for Southern Water
28 June 2019
Ofwat has been given notice that it intends to impose a £126million penalty on Southern Water for its past failure to comply with regulations regarding waste water treatment and monitoring.
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Flies with Thighs
18 June 2019
Grubbing about on the shingle recently looking for rare spiders I came across this hoverfly with swollen femora near the Mary Stanford lifeboat House.
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May 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
06 June 2019
May saw the first records of the very rare whelk jumping spider (Pellenes tripunctatus) on the reserve for 2019.
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A vision for climate and flood resilience
10 May 2019
The Environment Agency (EA) launched their draft National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England. It’s a fairly sobering, if upbeat account of how in the face of climate change, it is no longer realistic to manage increasingly intense flooding and sea level rise with limitlessly high flood walls and barriers.
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March 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
01 April 2019
Bird highlight during March was a splendid male ring-necked duck initially seen at Castle Water on the 27th.
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Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - February 2019
01 March 2019
Spotted redshank is one of those birds which I generally hear more than I see, so it was nice to actually lay eyes on one on the new saltmarsh on the 18th.
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Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - January 2019
01 February 2019
After first being spotted during December, the small flock of three twite was still present on the Beach Reserve throughout January.
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The life aquatic - How wetlands can help reverse climate change
31 January 2019
Wetlands can be part of the solution to climate change