News
2 September 2010
August was wet and cloudy
From Hastings Meteorological Station.
January 2010
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 65.1 hours (64.1)
Mean maximum temp. 4.5 C (6.9)
Mean minimum temp. 0.1 C (2.5)
Rainfall 67.7 mm. (70.9)
Gale or stronger 0 day (2.1)
Snow lying 13 days (2.5)
February 2010
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 74.4 hours (84.3)
Mean maximum temp. 6.2 C (7.1)
Mean minimum temp. 1.4 C (2.4)
Rainfall 123.7 mm. (52.7)
Gale or stronger 0 day (1.0)
Snow lying 8 days (2.4)
March 2010
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 123.9 hours (132.6)
Mean maximum temp. 8.9 C (9.1)
Mean minimum temp. 3.2 C (3.4)
Rainfall 67.1 mm. (50.9)
Gale or stronger 1 day (0.9)
April 2010
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 273.8 hours (177.5)
Mean maximum temp. 13.2 C (11.9)
Mean minimum temp. 5.4 C (5.3)
Rainfall 14.3 mm. (47.3)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.3)
May 2010
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 241.3 hours (228.5)
Mean maximum temp. 14.4 C (15.4)
Mean minimum temp. 7.0 C (8.4)
Rainfall 45.1 mm. (45.2)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.3)
June 2010
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 294.9 hours (232.4)
Mean maximum temp. 19.5 C (18.1)
Mean minimum temp. 11.8 C (11.2)
Rainfall 44.2 mm. (46.8)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.1)
July 2010
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 255.5 hours (228.9)
Mean maximum temp. 21.0 C (19.9)
Mean minimum temp. 13.9 C (13.2)
Rainfall 46.2 mm. (53.8)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.1)
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.
Download the Environment Agency’s latest newsletter by clicking here.
Previous project info
This summer the Environment Agency would like to begin the restoration of Rye Harbour Farm, to re-create habitats lost to the site for more than 50 years. Rye Harbour Farm was purchased to assist in the creation of the sea defence embankment from Winchelsea Beach to Rye Harbour. Following its completion we have been working towards a project to restore many of the habitats that once existed there. The Project will contribute to the Environment Agency’s national commitment to creating and restoring important habitats, and will form a significant extension to the adjacent Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. A planning application was submitted on May 6th to Rother District Council – click here.
Download the Environment Agency’s May newsletter by clicking here.
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
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.
Steve lived nearby in the Brede Valley where he enjoyed the countryside and looked after a colony of Tree Sparrows. He was a regular visitor to this Nature Reserve and contributed to its success. On his last visit Steve came on his motorised wheelchair to the Parkes Hide nearby. Steve knew of the plans for this hide and his family have funded the project — he would have loved to sit here, overlooking the Quarry, and watch the spring Whimbrel roost or the Common Terns nesting on the islands. There are plans to create several new islands close to this hide in the autumn of 2010.
Introduction by Barry Yates and Matthew Denny
Opening by Steve’s grandchildren
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.
For more detail click here.
13 April 2010
Green Fingers Required!
If you can grow plants from seed we would like you to help with a local conservation project to create more habitat for the very rare Marsh Mallow Moth by growing Marsh Mallow plants from local seed. Planting of our seed can be until about mid-May in small pots, then returning the plants to us in September to plant at several locations on the reserve. We are looking for about a thousand plants, so if you can help with 10 or more that would be
great. For more information click here – we can post seeds to you. Thank you.
30 March 2010
Wildlife Festival
The dates for the 6th Annual Wildlife Festival in the Hastings-Rye-Dungeness area are 29th May to 6th June 2010. There will be activities at Hastings Country Park, Pett Level, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, East Guldeford Level, Camber, Dungeness RSPB and the Romney Marsh Visitor Centre.
Click here for more detail Most activities are free, but donations will be appreciated. Children are especially welcomed, but must be accompanied by an adult.
13 March 2010
40th Anniversary
The Nature Reserve’s first warden, Dave Flumm, started work on 15th March 1970, and reading his annual report it is clear how much progress has been made for the reserve’s wildlife and its visitors. The report is now available from this website on the publication page – it’s in 2 parts to download.
9 January 2010
Bittern influx
There have been many Bittern on view at Rye Harbour during the recent icy weather. At Castle Water up to 4 have been seen at one time, once there were 3 in front of the hide there, and elsewhere another 4 have been seen at once. Click here for images.
This is partly due to birds leaving other parts of frozen Europe and ice has formed in the reedbeds, forcing the Bittern out into the open.
We have carried out a lot of habitat creation for this species to breed, so hopefully it gives good conditions for them to survive a cold winter. Click here and here for project details.
1 January 2010
December - sunny but wet!
From Hastings Meteorological Station.
January 2009
(normal value in brackets)
Sunshine 81.3 hours (63.9)
Mean maximum temp. 6.0 C (6.9)
Mean minimum temp. 1.7 C (2.5)
Rainfall 76.7 mm. (70.8)
Gale or stronger 0 day (2.1)
February 2009
Sunshine 72.8 hours (84.4)
Mean maximum temp. 7.7 C (7.1)
Mean minimum temp. 2.6 C (2.4)
Rainfall 65.4 mm. (52.6)
Gale or stronger 0 day (1.0)
March 2009
Sunshine 194.3 hours (132.1)
Mean maximum temp. 11.3 C (9.1)
Mean minimum temp. 4.1 C (3.4)
Rainfall 38.3 mm. (51.0)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.9)
April 2009
Sunshine 210.7 hours (177.2)
Mean maximum temp. 13.6 C (11.8)
Mean minimum temp. 7.7 C (5.3)
Rainfall 29.1 mm. (47.4)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.3)
May 2009
Sunshine 254.5 hours (228.3)
Mean maximum temp. 16.5 C (15.4)
Mean minimum temp. 9.8 C (8.3)
Rainfall 37.6 mm. (45.2)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.3)
June 2009
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)
July 2009
Sunshine 275.4 hours (228.5)
Mean maximum temp. 20.3 C (19.9)
Mean minimum temp. 14.2 C (13.2)
Rainfall 65.5 mm. (53.8)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.1)
August 2009
Sunshine 237.0 hours (217.5)
Mean maximum temp. 21.4 C (20.2)
Mean minimum temp. 14.7 C (13.5)
Rainfall 35.3 mm. (59.2)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.3)
September 2009
Sunshine 187.3 hours (168.5)
Mean maximum temp. 19.4 C (18.3)
Mean minimum temp. 12.7 C (11.8)
Rainfall 23.9 mm. (63.2)
Gale or stronger 0 day (0.6)
October 2009
Sunshine 113.6 hours (124.0)
Mean maximum temp. 15.7 C (14.6)
Mean minimum temp. 10.3 C (8.8)
Rainfall 82.6 mm. (89.0)
Gale or stronger 0 day (1.3)
November 2009
Sunshine 72.9 hours (76.6)
Mean maximum temp. 12.8 C (10.5)
Mean minimum temp. 8.3 C (5.5)
Rainfall 221.3 mm. (89.3)
Gale or stronger 6 days (1.5)
December 2009
Sunshine 82.8 hours (57.5)
Mean maximum temp. 7.6 C (7.9)
Mean minimum temp. 2.4 C (3.)
Rainfall 108.4 mm. (79.8)
Gale or stronger 0 days (1.8)