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Hello everyone! How are you? Thought I would pop over and tell you about our Wildlife Explorers Club that is happening on Saturday 6 July . It's something a little different for us, and I am thrilled to say we have 5 spaces left ! On Saturday 6 July (from 11 am-1 pm ) we will be taking...

Good morning! How are you today? Just a quick post about some of the wildlife highlights for yesterday. We had some lovely views of hobby flying over the Draper hide hunting dragonflies The garganey is back at the Tern hide. Keep an eye out at the Tern hide you never know...

Hi everyone, How are you? Just so you know the Warbler hide is closed for now. The ramp needs some love and attention and we will have it open as soon as we can. The path up to the hide is still open so you can still walk along that path to try and spot warblers!

Good afternoon everyone, how are you? Just wanted to do a quick up date about some of the wildlife highlights that have been about today... We've had brilliant views of: teal , shoveler , tufted duck , mallard , gadwall , mute swan , Canada geese , grey heron , cormorant , little grebe ...

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...

There is a marsh harrier flying over the meadow right now ! Woohoo! More info when we find out! Click on the picture to go to the RSPB website and find out more information about marsh harrier

Hi everyone, how are you? I just wanted to do a quick list of the different wildlife that we saw in August at Rye Meads! So here we go: Water birds and waders Common tern, black headed gull, lesser black backed gull, coot, moorhen, grey heron, little egret, cormorant, pochard, gadwall, mallard...

Good afternoon, How are you? I'm very excited to tell you that the kingfishers at the Kingfisher hide have hatched ! The adults were spotted taking fish into the bank! It's a good time to see the kingfishers as the adults will be in and out of the bank every few minutes taking the hungry...

Morning all, How are you today? I hope you are all having a nice weekend! :) Like them or not, foxes are fascinating creatures. Keith Bedford managed to get these amazing pictures of the fox hunting the other day, have a look - What a brilliant series of pictures!

Good morning everyone! It's 7.50 am, but I've been here since 4.30 am because we've had a very special walk today - the Dawn Chorus ! It's International Dawn Chorus Day - so we ran a walk to try and hear this miracle of nature, and identify the different calls. Well, I thought...

Hi everyone, How are you? I thought I would give you a bit of an update about the wildlife that is around at the moment! Kingfisher picture by Peter Hewitt We'll start with kingfishers ... To be honest we aren't sure quite what they are doing! We've been getting brilliant views...

Hi everyone, How are you this morning? I thought I would let you know some of the highlights from yesterday - We had great views of little gull from the Tern hide. Little gulls are a small, dainty gull. Adults in summer have black heads, while young birds have a black mark on each wing...

Hi all, How are you all today? Have you had a look at the blog that I wrote earlier today - the great grey shrike was about again on Saturday! There are some nice pictures, check it out! Today we've had some lovely views of the kingfisher . The male has been abbout, sitting on the posts...

Exciting news! On Friday a pair of kingfishers were seen at the bank going in and out of one of the holes! It's looking good for this year! Fingers crossed everyone! Fab picture by Malcolm Housden, this was the Rye Meads pair seen at the Kingfisher hide a couple of years ago!

Keith Bedford managed to get these pictures of the great grey shrike : So it's still there, it's been moving around a bit - it started on the main path between the Ashby and Lagoon hides, then far end of the lagoon seen from the Tern hide, then across to near the Kingfisher hide,...

Don't miss out! On Sunday 19 February we are going to be closing late ! You asked us to open later so the Draper and Lapwing hides will be open until 6.30pm ! John Bridges (rspb-images.com) No guarentees that the barn owls will be seen though! We stayed open late last weekend, and...

Good morning! There was a great grey shrike on the reserve this morning! Very exciting! It was spotted on the main track between the Ashby and Lagoon hides... It's a bit flightly, so fingers crossed we'll see it!

Hi all, So I go away for a few days and I miss all the exciting stuff... smew, goosander, eagle, day flying barn owl.... Wow! :) So Joan write a few days agout about the white-tailed eagle that flew over, well Paul Mowbray got these amazing pictures! WOW!

Morning all, Watervoles are small mammals that are quite widespead in Europe. They live around banks of slow moving rivers, streams, ditches, ponds and other waterways. They watervole population fell drastically (the drop was a loss of 90-95% of the whole population) between the 1960's and the...

Hello everyone. How are you doing? Keeping warm? The temperature is dropping so it's going to freeze, don't forget that your garden birds and other wildlife will have trouble in the weather (so why not put out some food and water for them!) I thought I would let you know what has been...

Hi all! Earlier I mentioned that the bittern has been seen (as well as water rail , redwing , fieldfare , siskin , loads of ducks and more)... Well we went out again and stood on the ramp (the big zigzag ramp and stairs that leads down near the Ashby hide)... it's very easy to walk past this are...

Afternoon all, So far today we've had some nice sightings! The bittern has been showing off. It's been seen from the steps/ ramp leading down to the Ashby hide - keep an eye out by the reedbeds foropen water and scan the reedbeds for any blobs that light brown colour! There's been a water...

Slightly odd blog title I know... but we've had quite alot of questions recently about some brown things next to the path... so I thought I would do a blog post and explain all! Just over the first bridge along the edge of the path, and up the banks there are things that currently look like this...

Morning all, Did you all take part in the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch? Has any one seen the small wasp nest , about the size of a golfball, in the back of the Warbler Hide? Andy Schofield , who is the RSPB warden from The Lodge nature reserve, identified it as a paper wasp nest...