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Morning all, How are you? I just wanted to tell you about one of our lovely young Wildlife Explorers members Amelie! Amelie comes along to all out Wildlife Explorer Club meetings - it's a club for children aged between 6-11 to explore nature and have fun! We meet once a month and do loads of...

Morning! How are you all today? So, I haven't interviewed a volunteer for a while so I thought it was time to do the next in the mini series about the "people of Rye Meads". There is more to a nature reserve than just the wildlife - it takes just shy of 100 volounteers to keep Rye...

Morning all How are you? So I posted a couple of pictures I took over our 10th Birthday Bash, but I thought I would give you a few more pictures and tell you all that happened over the weekend! So the exciting news was that the baby kingfishers at the Kingfisher hide fledged that morning...

It's our birthday - help us celebrate! Come along tomorrow and join the party! The visitors centre is 10 years old this year and we are going to have a birthday party! And you are all invited! Plase come along and help us celebrate! On Sunday 9 September we are going to have an open...

Hi everyone. Here is a blog from one of Rye Meads' volunteers, Lucy! She wanted to tell you about the holiday activities that we run at Rye Meads: Hi! My name is Lucy. I first came to Rye Meads with my Mum and little sister. We saw a poster about an event over the school holidays: the Wacky...

It's our birthday - help us celebrate! The visitors centre is 10 years old this year and we are going to have a birthday party! And you are all invited! Plase come along and help us celebrate! On Sunday 9 September we are going to have an open day! We'll have lots of stalls - below...

Hi everyone, Just wanted to say SORRY to Malcolm - I miss labeled one of his photos... This is actually Malcolm Housden's stunning shot of kingfisher: He took another lovely shot on Thursday: Thanks for sharing Malcolm!

Hi everyone, How are you? You may know that over the school holidays we run an educational scheme for children aged 7-13. Well today the kids went out with the camera ... and I thought I would share some of their photos! These are all pictures taken by the children on today's Wacky Wildlife...

The girls of St Margaret’s school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, have raised a whopping £650 for their local RSPB nature reserve – Rye Meads! The girls from St Margaret’s, which is an independent school for girls aged 4-18, raised the money through activities they ran over the last...

On 13 July MEP Richard Howitt visited Rye Meads, along with Sacha Cleminson Head of the RSPB's International Biodiversity Policy Unit ! Keith Bedford (one of our Lead Volunteers) and Vicky Buckel (Assistant Site Manager at Rye Meads) took Richard and Sacha around the reserve to look at our fabulous...

Hi everyone, The lovely David Lindo aka the Urban Birder visited today! It was the first time that he has visited us at Rye Meads, and he had a lovely time! It might have been raining a little, but the visitors, David and myself all had a nice walk! We saw/ heard lots including: Kingfisher, teal...

Morning everyone, How are you today? We are delighted that David Lindo , the Urban Birder , will be coming over to Rye Meads on Sunday ! David will be at the reserve from 10 am and will be hanging out to chat to people and coming on a walk round the site (which starts at 10.30 am) and will be...

Don't forget this week we have Steve Kershaw's fabulous art display here at Rye Meads! His fabulous art is on show until Sunday 10 June - you can even meet the artist and see how he creates his work. Paintings, prints and gift cards will be on sale as well as a specially printed book. Steve...

Good afternoon everyone. I hope you are all well. So, welcome to the next "People at Rye Meads" blog post! It's been a while since I last interviewed someone so I thought it was about time! You know, there is more to a nature reserve than just the nature! There are just under 100 volunteers...

Morning everyone! How are you today? I wanted to share with you some exciting news! The first of the seasons common terns have been spotted sitting on the rafts! Common terns nest on the specially designed and built rafts at the reserve. The rafts were designed and built at the reserve...

Evening all! How are you all doing? Just a quick blog to tell you about the wildlife highlights! There has been masses of fieldfare around over the last couple of days! There was about 100 on the grassy area next to the visitor centre yesterday! Today we've had great views...

Afternoon everyone! I hope that you are well. What have you all been upto today? It's been quite quiet so far today, I think everyone is doing some Christmas shopping (if you are stuck for presents for those hard to buy for people - have you considered RSPB membership , but remember to come...

Andy is a volunteer here at Rye Meads, and he has written us a little piece about becoming a volunteer: Becoming a volunteer at Rye Meads There’s something about people visiting a nature reserve. People smile and talk to you! Help you, even. In towns and cities it’s different; people with...

Good afternoon everyone. I hope you are all well. So, welcome to the next " People at Rye Meads " blog post! You know, there is more to a nature reserve than just the nature! There are just under 100 volunteers and staff that keep this fantastic nature reserve in shape! So this is where...

A short story about a day in the life of our Education Officer, Caroline Gellor : Buffalo bill strikes again! You have a job. It’s Education Officer. You work on a reserve. How varied can it be?!! On Friday 11 November, I was duty manager at Rye Meads. I had two volunteers on reception - one...

Hi all! I hope that you are well. I wanted to let you know that we have a lovely little display of the art work by the children (all aged between 6 and 11 years old) from the Rye Meads WEx Club and that you should all come and have a look! Here is a sneaky preview for you: Spiderweb glistening...

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all well. So, welcome to the next " People at Rye Meads " blog post! You know, there is more to a nature reserve than just the nature! There are just under 100 volunteers and staff that keep this fantastic nature reserve in shape! So this is where you...

Good morning everyone. I hope you are all well. So, welcome to the next "People at Rye Meads" blog post! You know, there is more to a nature reserve than just the nature! There are just under 100 volunteers and staff that keep this fantastic nature reserve in shape! So this is where you...

Hello! We are delighted to announce that we have had our FIRST EVER summer bittern at Rye Meads! Bitterns over winter in the Lee Valley but we have done alot of work to impove the reedbed - which is the bitterns habitat - and we hope that one day bitterns will stay and breed. Today we spotted a...

Morning all! You know, I really should learn to save drafts of these blogs... this is the second time I've written this! It all went wrong yesterday! (Fingres crossed this time) I wanted to tell you about the exciting event we held last month. On Friday 24 June we hosted a special visit from...