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Hi everyone. There have been some really great birds today, despite all the water being frozen. A bittern was seen flying from the Tern hide to the Ashby hide around lunch time. This morning a female bullfinch was hanging round outside the back of the centre. Lots of fieldfares around. But the highlight...

Hi everyone, Just to let you know that the reserve (including the car park) will be closed on Sunday 20 January . We are very sorry for any inconvenience, but due to weather conditions it would be too dangerous. We may cancel the stargazing event due to the weather as well, if you are interested...

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 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...

Afternoon all, how are you? Quick post - the kingfishers fledged this morning! We've seen two babies in the surrounding bushes! Woohoo!

Good morning you lovely people, How are you? I wanted to share a picture that a very lucky visitor took on Sunday: Brilliant picture by Peter Hewitt The harrier was hunting ove rthe meadow and made it's way over to the Tern hide - where it was mobbed by crows! Brilliant bird...

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

Hello again! How are you? Just a quick email to give you a kingfisher update. The kingfishers are still feeding young at the moment. They are taking fish into the bank every 20-25 minutes or so. This is the best time to see kingfishers, once they've fledged the babies will hide away deep...

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 morning everyone, How are you? Just thought I would give you some of the wildlife highlights from over the bank holiday weekend! Greenshank Green sandpiper Common sandpiper Lapwing Snipe Garganey ...

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!

If you would like the amazing opportunity to see kingfishers (and all the other lovely wildlife at the reserve) before our opening times have a read of this: Great shot by Malcolm Housden Rye Meads nature reserve is opening early for 10 lucky pe ople on Sunday 26 August from 7-10 am (although you...

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...

Good morning kingfisher fans! how are you? I just wanted to share a couple of pictures that a visitors took over the weekend. The kingfishers (from the Kingfisher Hide) are feeding young - which is very exciting as it is a good time to see these amazing birds! Over the weekend they were feeding...

Hi all, How are you today? Rather hot? Hope you are all drinking lots of water! Just thought I would let you know some of today's wildlife highlights! Black tailed godwit Snipe Lapwing Green sandpiper (there was 7 yesterday!) Garganey...

Hi all, I have a confession to make.. you may have noticed in my last blog I had written weekend highlights 11 and 12 July ... I meant AUGUST! Woops! Sorry! Just to confirm - The kingfishers have hatched at the Kingfisher hide, and the adults have been going in and out of the bank taking...

Morning all, How are you? Over the weekend we had some nice sightings, that I thought I would share: The kingfishers were spotted leaving the nest bank at the Kingfisher Hide with an egg shell - which suggested the brood has hatched ! Yay! The adults tend to take the egg shell far away to drop...

Hi everyone, How are you? Yesterday I posted some pictures of baby shrews ! Weren't they adorable? If you haven't seen the pictures look here . It was a great spot by a visitor to the reserve - up by the gate that's just past the Draper hide, there is a compost heap. Well one of...

Hi all, How are you? An amazing spot from a visitor this afternoon - baby shrews! With a pound coin so you can see how big it is! Aren't they sweet! More later! Bye for now!

Hi everyone, how are you? I thought I would share some of the things that we have seen today: Greenfinch, chaffinch, blue tit, great tit, long tailed tit, blackbird, wren, sedge warbler, reed warbler, blackcap, chiffchaff, moorhen, coot, grey heron, cormorant, magpie, jay, woodpigeon, mallard...

Morning! How are you all today? Enjoying the sun shine? Remember to drink lots of water and make sure you've got suncream on! I thought I would share some of the wildlife highlights for the day! There was at least 50 lapwings , 2 green sandpiper , little egret , common tern , and loads...

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...

Afternoon all, How are you? The results are in! Last weekend we had our first ever bioblitz at the reserve. Over the weekend of 14 and 15 July we tried to find every single species (of anything) that is here at the reserve. A BioBlitz is an "intense period of biological surveying...