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09 March 2021
Your top five frog spawn questions answered
Every year WildCall gets lots phone calls from people worried about the frog spawn and tadpoles in their ponds. Here are the answers to the most frequent asked frog spawn questions.
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08 March 2021
Running the South Coast Challenge for Sussex Wildlife Trust
Helen Forester is running the South Coast Challenge to support Sussex Wildlife Trust, in her 40th birthday year. We asked her a bit more about it.
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08 March 2021
You've been framed
February is largely a calendar-planning and report-writing month for ecologists, luckily Glenn had a distraction in the form of a camouflaged green box.
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07 March 2021
A closer look at Frogbit
Frogbit is a floating plant of freshwater. Its leaves look like a tiny water lily, but the flowers have just three delicate white petals.
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05 March 2021
Winter Bats
In our effort to identify and understand the wildlife that lives in Sussex, bats have always been tricky to identify
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03 March 2021
Awakenings: Celebrating 60 years of the Sussex Wildlife Trust
Do you enjoy creative writing? We are creating an anthology to celebrate the Sussex Wildlife Trust’s 60th Anniversary in 2021 and would love you to get involved.
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01 March 2021
February 2021 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings
One of the bird highlights during February (certainly for me) was a Jack Snipe on Harbour Farm on the 23rd.
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27 February 2021
Wheatear at Rye Harbour
With spring just around the corner, one of the birds that will be arriving on the reserve in early March is the Wheatear.
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24 February 2021
Going Underground - animal architects of the natural world
The number of different homes inhabited by animals is huge, so in this blog, we’re going to look at underground homes. Because, as The Jam would put it, if you want to create a warm, dry and cosy home safe from prying eyes and predators, going underground is a popular option.