Discover our Wetland Wildlife
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is a mosaic of habitats beside the sea with shingle, saltmarsh, sand dunes, rivers, pits, grazing marsh, reedbeds and farmland. Full of wildlife for you to discover.
News
3 July 2009
Camber Castle is open
... on weekend afternoons in July, August and September. Click here for more detail
Read more »2 July 2009
June was very sunny and hot
From Hastings Met. Station.
June 2009
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 284.8 hours (232.0)
Mean maximum temp. 19.6 C (18.1)
Mean minimum temp. 11.8 C (11.2)
Rainfall 28.4 mm. (46.9)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.1)
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30 June 2009
Close focusing binoculars.
From time to time we find a product that is good for enjoying wildlife. Recently we were introduced to a pair of binoculars that focus so unbelievably close that you can watch insects behaving naturally in superb close up.
Read more »2 June 2009
Wild Rye Videos
We are working with cameraman Ken Lawson to produce widescreen HD video on a variety of nature reserve subjects. His latest video is called Rye Harbour in May and shows some of the huge number of Painted Ladies and a family of Avocet and much more…
Read more »26 May 2009
CPRE Award
Wetland enhancements at Castle Water at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve led to an award received by Dr Barry Yates today. Mrs Phyllida Stewart-Roberts, for the Campaign to Protect Rural England judges said “Castle Water created a beautiful and peaceful environment for both visitors and wildlife. This is a very special landscape, a place where you can enjoy sea and nature”.
Read more »Recent Sightings
June 2009
Now the breeding season has been under way for a couple of months, the wardens can begin to take stock of this years breeding birds. With exception of our Little Terns, the breeding seabirds are having a very good year, with around 1600 pairs of Black-headed Gull, 90 pairs of Mediterranean Gull, 500 of Sandwich Tern and over 200 of Common Tern nesting on Ternery Pool.
May 2009
May is usually the time when the breeding season gets into full swing at Rye Harbour and this year was no exception. On Ternery Pool the islands thronged with masses of Black-headed Gull, Mediterranean Gull, and Sandwich Tern chicks, and young waders on Flat Beach included Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover and Redshank.
April 2009
The coming of April saw the breeding season at Rye Harbour really gather pace. The last of our breeding summer visitors arrived, with, the first Little Tern on the 9th, the first Cuckoo on the 13th and the first Turtle Dove on the 24th, while on the Beach Reserve, Wheatear, Ringed Plover and Oystercatcher had all staked their claims to territories by the end of the month, and the same was true of Avocet and Little Ringed Plover on Harbour Farm.
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