Archive
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01 February 2021
Celebrating wetlands - where land meets water
We may be a ‘wet’ nation, but wetlands – wildlife-rich, carbon-capturing oases – are in shorter supply than you might think. Wetlands have largely been removed from our landscape, and this loss is a problem not just for nature, but for people too.
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01 February 2021
Short-eared Owls: “They come from the land of the ice and snow”
Recently there has been a rare winter visitor seen along the Adur; a Short-eared Owl…
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01 February 2021
Cattle on Seaford Head
We now have 13 cows on Seaford Head Nature Reserve.
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30 January 2021
How many species?
At this time of year most plants and bugs aren’t out and about yet so Ecologist Glenn Norris uses this time to check what everybody has been seeing on our reserves
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29 January 2021
A Year at Rye Harbour talk - Answers
During the Sussex Wildlife Trust webinar on 28th January - A Year at Rye Harbour - there were many questions and we only had chance to answer a few after the talk, so here we try to answer them all.
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28 January 2021
Rampion 2 Consultation
An informal consultation on plans to expand the Rampion Offshore Windfarm off the Sussex coast has been launched. This initial consultation closes on 11th February 2021.
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27 January 2021
The Wildlife Trusts explore legal challenge to Government’s neonic decision
We are preparing to take legal action unless the Government can prove it acted lawfully.
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26 January 2021
We speak to Michael Blencowe about Sussex Wildlife Trust TV
Michael Blencowe talks to us about Sussex Wildlife Trust TV
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25 January 2021
In the night garden with Daryl Peters
Daryl Peters has been a contributor to the Nature Table Facebook group for long time. Recently he has taken up a new technique for capturing wildlife at night in his garden
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23 January 2021
What is found on the strandline - plastic
Sadly, an almost guaranteed find in the strandline of any beach is human-made materials, and this is most commonly plastic.
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22 January 2021
2020 in photos by Andrew Holloway
Andrew Holloway sent us a series of 12 photographs representing each month of 2020:
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22 January 2021
What can be found on the strandline #5 Eggs
Mermaid’s purses are not the only egg cases that can be found in the strandline. Common whelk (Buccinum undatum) egg cases are also a fairly common sight. They are a mass of small spongy balls that could indeed be confused for sponges. In the past, sailors did actually use them as wash balls! The first whelks to hatch are cannibalistic and will eat their still developing siblings to give themselves a burst of energy to help them survive in the open ocean.