Your recent sightings at Rye Meads
Your recent sightings
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Update 20 April 2019
The kingfishers have hatched their first brood of 2019. Today, we received 2 reports of small fish going in to the bank and 1 of something white being dropped just outside the bank (probably egg shell). The pair were very active yesterday with...
Posted 20 Apr 2019 by vicky -
Incubation begins and other sightings
Great News, 2 changeovers have been sen today at the kingfisher bank! The first was at roughly 11.50 and the next almost exactly 2 hours later at 1.50. Incubation lasts 19-21 days so we would expect hatching around 19-21 April. An early start to...
Posted 31 Mar 2019 by vicky -
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