Sussex Wildlife Trust is keen for people to come to Rye Harbour Nature Reserve using public transport, where possible. But how easy is it to do that?

Grubbing about on the shingle recently looking for rare spiders I came across this hoverfly with swollen femora near the Mary Stanford lifeboat House.

The breeding terns in Rye Bay have been struggling to maintain their breeding populations, and it’s seems to be getting worse.

May saw the first records of the very rare whelk jumping spider (Pellenes tripunctatus) on the reserve for 2019.

​This is the month of amazing changes in the natural world with birds arriving / leaving / migrating and many insects and flowers appearing. We enjoyed some exceptionally warm weather, a few April showers and lots of lovely wildlife.

On Monday 8th April, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new Rye Harbour Discovery Centre.

Bird highlight during March was a splendid male ring-necked duck initially seen at Castle Water on the 27th.

When T.S. Eliot wrote the first words of “The Waste Land” - April is the cruellest month, many people thought it was because the life and colour of spring ….

From 2004, when I began my employment at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, to late 2018 I ran a moth trap at Lime Kiln Cottage.

Sussex Wildlife Trust is making an appeal to its members and supporters to secure the future of the new Discovery Centre currently being built at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.