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Wild Rye: Discover our Wetland Wildlife

Footpath past the wader pool and to the shore.

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.

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News

24 April 2008

Wildlife Festival

In late May there will be many extra events at the Nature Reserve and surrounding countryside.
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Find out more by clicking here

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2 April 2008

March was warm and windy.

From Hastings Meteorological Station.
March 2008
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 117.8 hours (132.3)
Mean maximum temp. 10.0 C (9.1)
Mean minimum temp. 4.5 C (3.4)
Rainfall 54.2 mm. (51.0)
Gale or stronger 2 day (0.9)

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13 March 2008

Live Weather

We have established a weather station at Rye Harbour that provides live weather information on this website.
Click here for a detailed version or click here for a simple version or look at our weather page, here

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24 February 2008

Preparing Ternery Pool

Recent workparties have prepared Ternery Pool for the imminent seabird breeding season. A raft has been moved from Castle Water, refurbished and placed at Ternery Pool to provide some extra safe nesting space for gulls and terns. nesting raft

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5 January 2008

Events 2008 leaflet

The public events on the nature reserve for 2008 are listed in a new leaflet that is available from Lime Kiln Cottage or by downloading by clicking here

Evenets leaflet

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Previous News

Recent Sightings

April 2008

Despite the often cold and damp weather, with the coming of April, the breeding season at Rye Harbour really gathered pace. This month saw almost the last of our breeding summer visitors arrive, with, the first Cuckoo on the 20th and the first Little Tern on the 9th, numbers of this species reaching 10 individuals by the end of the month.

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March 2008

Despite spells of wintry weather, things really began to feel spring-like on the reserve during March. At Ternery Pool, numbers of sea-birds increased steadily during the month, with a maximum of 138 Mediterranean Gull, 1000+ Black-headed Gull and 155 Sandwich Tern present on the 29th.

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February 2008

February is usually something of a transitional month between the dark days of winter and new beginnings of spring, and this year was no exception. Despite the continued presence of more typically winter visitors, Redshank, Oystercatcher and Ringed Plover were displaying, Skylark song became a constant feature of the reserve, and there was even a Chiffchaff singing intermittently late month.

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Previous recent sightings