Recent sightings

Your recent sightings

• 1 September 2018

  It is a beautiful autumn day today, with clear blue skies, sunshine and a heavy dew early on.  The event this morning with the Rye Meads Ringing Group  was well attended and everyone was rewarded with lovely sightings in the hand of a variety of...

  Posted 01 Sep 2018 by vicky

• Wonderful warblers 4 August 2018

  Fantastic Wonderful Warblers event this morning, run in conjunction with the Rye Meads Ringing Group and led by the very knowledgeable Alan Harris. We were treated to 8 species of warbler and bonus of juvenile green woodpecker and gadwall. Feel li...

  Posted 04 Aug 2018 by vicky

• Spiders and damsels

  We had some excellent finds at Rye Meads yesterday including a Wasp Spider which is a first record for the reserve The distinctive black and yellow stripes are used as a defence mechanism by mimicking wasp appearance in order to deter predators. W...

  Posted 02 Aug 2018 by vicky

• Kingfisher update 20 July 2018

  Unexpected reports coming in this morning, the second brood of kingfishers have fledged! Adults seen passing fish to another bird in the bushes and coming out of the burrow still with fish, at least 2 seen exiting burrow one after the other. Seems...

  Posted 20 Jul 2018 by vicky

• Kingfisher update 19 July 2018

  Great news, the Kingfishers are incubating the 3rd brood! A change over has been seen today, so by my calculations hatching should be 7-9 August. The second brood is not due to fledged until 23-25 July so our pair are going to be kept busy for the...

  Posted 19 Jul 2018 by vicky

• Update July 2018

  Hello all News you will all be interested  in! The Kingfishers are very active feeding young of the second brood. A few days ago they were joined by another pair which did not go down well, after a bit of a ruckus, our pair saw off the competition...

  Posted 06 Jul 2018 by vicky