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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...

Afternoon all, How are you? Over the weekend the young fledged. On Saturday a few people saw the male giving the female a fish - but also heading into one of the bushes along side the bank (even taking fish into the bush so there could have been a young one in there somewhere.) By Sunday the...

Ooh it looks like the kingfishers have started/ have fledged! Visitors have seen one of the adults passing fish to another kingfisher - lots of people hvae seen this today, so it sounds like the adult is feeding the baby/ babies! We're not sure if just one has fledged or if they all have and they've...

Evening all, How are you today? So what's going on with the kingfishers ? Good question! Well to be honest, I don't know! Which is not the most helpful statements on a blog entitled "kingfisher update"... Let me explain... So the pair of kingfishers at the Kingfisher...

With all this rain it's causing quite a lot of havoc around the country... including on RSPB reserves! Over at one of our sister RSPB sites Radipole Lake (in central Weymouth in Dorset) is suffering with flooding problems. I wanted to share with you a post from Michael Wilson's post on Arne's...

Hi everyone, Me again, I forgot to mention that the oystercatchers were back at the Draper hide again yesterday! Keep an eye out - the waders sometimes skulk around the back of the islands so just keep looking! Now I found this very exciting as oystercatchers are one of my favorite birds...

Hi everyone, how are you? You know when you are walking to the Kingfisher hide ... you turn left off the main path and walk onto the little D shaped section of path that takes you to the Kingfisher hide, and onto a bridge? Well if you stand on that bridge and look down the stream towards...

A lively image of a young fox, full of life and spring

taken on 21/1/12.