Archive of: Wetland 2
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06 June 2019
May 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
May saw the first records of the very rare whelk jumping spider (Pellenes tripunctatus) on the reserve for 2019.
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10 May 2019
A vision for climate and flood resilience
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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01 April 2019
March 2019 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
Bird highlight during March was a splendid male ring-necked duck initially seen at Castle Water on the 27th.
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01 March 2019
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - February 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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01 February 2019
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - January 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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31 January 2019
The life aquatic - How wetlands can help reverse climate change
Wetlands can be part of the solution to climate change
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17 January 2019
Rye Harbour Wetlands
New saltmarsh dramatically increases numbers of waders and wildfowl!
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01 January 2019
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - December 2018
The Peregrine is the epitome of a bird of prey, with its muscular build and rapid flight, and is certainly one of those birds guaranteed to grab a birdwatchers attention
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18 December 2018
Behaving like beavers
Our Sussex Flow Initiative Project Officers are mimicking what our ancient natural ecosystem engineers, the beaver, would have done naturally.
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06 December 2018
Target 100
Target 100 is ambitious within the water industry for aiming to bring personal water consumption to an average of 100 litres per capita per day.
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29 November 2018
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings - November 2018
This month saw the first records of goldeneye for the winter
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11 November 2018
The Rise of the Herons
In the early days of the nature reserve the only species of heron you were likely to see at Rye Harbour was the familiar grey heron, but now…