News
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11 March 2024
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Wildlife Sightings: February 2024
Find out the wildlife highlights for February, from Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
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11 March 2024
PhotoPosts around our reserves - 3 years on
It’s been around three years since we installed our fixed-point photo posts on various reserves across Sussex- all are contributing to some great citizen science! Take a look and see.
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10 March 2024
All you need to know about Frog spawn
Every year, WildCall gets lots of phone calls from people worried about the frog spawn and tadpoles in their ponds. Here are the answers to some of the most commonly asked questions.
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07 March 2024
My 50 years watching Badgers
‘BadgerBob’ Eade tells us about 50 years watching Badgers and his absolutely enduring fascination with them over the years
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04 March 2024
Careers in Conservation Event
As part of out Sussex Youth in Nature events, we recently hosted a Careers in Conservation Panel at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
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27 February 2024
A hop, skip and a jump for Leap Year
With this being a Leap Year, we thought we’d take a look at a few creatures that leap!
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26 February 2024
February fun at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
The Communities Team at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, Lucy Bowyer, Jill Ferguson and Natasha Sharma, tell us about their busy month of activities on the reserve during February, including launching their new activity trails
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22 February 2024
Views sought on Pine Marten restoration project
People in the South East are being invited to put forward their views on the prospect of restoring Pine Martens to the region by a group of conservationists who are examining the feasibility of returning the animal to the region.
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21 February 2024
Farmers are fed up – but they have allies in the public and also in nature
We need better policy so that all farmers can move to resilient, nature-friendly farming – and so they are not undermined by bad policy.
Around Sussex
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29 April 2020
Species of the day: Pied Wagtail
The chirpy Pied Wagtail is a bird summed up nicely by its name, though it has many others in folklore, including the widespread “willie wagtail” and charming “peggy dishwasher.”
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29 April 2020
Corona Wildlife Diary: Day Forty-three
I build a Grass Snake heap, go shopping for horse manure and get into another argument.
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28 April 2020
Species of the day: Hawthorn
With its distinctive leaves, the Common Hawthorn is a familiar sight amongst spring hedgerows. Its colloquial name of ‘May-tree’ is entirely suggestive of its typical flowering period