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
2 September 2010
August was wet and cloudy
From Hastings Met. Station
August 2010
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 163.6 hours (218.0)
Mean maximum temp. 19.9 C (20.2)
Mean minimum temp. 12.8 C (13.5)
Rainfall 74.5 mm. (59.0)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.3)
11 August 2010
Habitat Creation Project - update
The Environment Agency has been granted planning permission from Rother District Council to begin work on the restoration of habitats on Rye Harbour Farm. Work will begin this month and they expect to finish in Spring 2011.
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22 June 2010
Rye Harbour images
There is a selction of Rye Harbour wildlife videos available on You Tube by clicking here and a selection of Rye Harbour photos on flickr by clicking here
Read more »9 May 2010
Denny Hide
Our new birdwatching hide was officially opened by Steve Denny’s family and friends on 9th May. He was a committee member of the Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve from 1985 until his death in September 2006.
Read more »20 April 2010
GreenSTAT
Visitors to countryside parks in East Sussex now have the opportunity to share their views on how they are managed and maintained via a new online system called GreenSTAT.
Read more »Recent Sightings
August 2010
Passage waders on the Beach Reserve/Harbour Farm during August included up to 380 Curlew, 150+ Dunlin and 60 Knot, with smaller numbers of Golden Plover and Grey Plover and the occasional Sanderling, while at Castle Water Lapwing made up the bulk, with up to 500 present.
July 2010
Taking stock of our breeding sea-birds it is evident it has been a very good year at Rye Harbour. After worries about the effects of high water levels at the start of the season, the main colonies on Ternery Pool and the Quarry produced around 3000 fledged Black-headed Gull, 1000 fledged Sandwich Tern, 300 fledged Common Tern and 250 Mediterranean Gull, our best haul ever.
June 2010
One of the best pieces of news this June has been the return of Little Tern as a breeding species to Rye Harbour after an absence of two years. After deploying decoys and sound recordings to attract the birds back, at least three pairs nested, with the first chicks hatching by the end of the month.
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