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 with a network of footpaths and 5 birdwatching hides.
News
5 May 2012
April was wet
From Hastings Meteorological Station.
April 2012
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 176.0 hours (179.0)
Mean maximum temp. 11.9 C (11.9)
Mean minimum temp. 4.6 C (5.3)
Rainfall 78.6 mm. (46.7)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.3)
22 March 2012
What to look out for
Monthly guides to what widlife you can expect to see here can be found by clicking here.
Read more »2 March 2012
PLEASE JOIN US
As the nature reserve enters a new era with the Sussex Wildlife Trust (see article here) it is important to have your support.
You can support the Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve by joining and help us continue improving this special place for wildlife and people.
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You can support Sussex Wildlife Trust by joining and help take care of Sussex.
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Thank-you.
12 February 2012
Construction works
For the next few months there will be construction activity along the river south of Rye Harbour. The Environment Agency will be replacing the western training wall to ensure the long term future of the Harbour of Rye. This will mean many large construction vehicles including 3 large piling machines.
Read more »30 January 2012
Workparty 1979
As we plan to complete the islands at Ternery Pool before the next breeding season it is interesting to see how one of them was constructed by one of the Sussex Ornithological Society workparties in 1979. Alf Simpson has given us a panel of 12 photos taken by John Trowell. Click here for a 1.4MB JPG file
Read more »Recent Sightings
April 2012
The pace of the breeding season picked up during April, despite the wet weather. By the end of the month the majority of our summer visitors had arrived, including the first yellow wagtail on the 1st, cuckoo on the 16th and little tern on the 17th, while the earliest swift of the year was seen on the 14th.
March 2012
March saw the breeding season begin in earnest at Rye Harbour as the first of our summer visitors began to arrive on the reserve. Hence the first sandwich tern was seen on the 1st and the first wheatear on the 16th, and by the end of the month both sedge warbler and chiffchaff were singing at Castle Water.
February 2012
February was a month of contrasts as winter begin to give way to spring. Earlier in the month freezing conditions brought large numbers of waterfowl to the reserve, including 900 wigeon, 503 teal, 339 gadwall and 243 shoveler.
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