For many of our breeding seabirds, June is the climax of their breeding season.

Classical music lovers helped raise £2500 towards the new Discovery Centre at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve on Saturday (16 June) with a spectacular Gala Concert by the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra and Chamber Choir.

Easterly winds for much of the early part of the month resulted in a real bonanza of rare birds during May.

​A local name for ringed plover is Stonerunner, because it nests on the shingle and the adults and chicks run over the stones.

Highlight during April was two black-winged stilt on Harbour Farm between the 8th and 10th of the month.

I had a fantastic day last Friday with noted entomologist Steven Falk and the Wildlife Trust ecologist Graeme Lyons looking for rare bees at Castle Water.

In the 1980s the Dandelion like Stinking Hawksbeard became extinct in Britain.

Rye Harbour Nature Reserve’s proposed Discovery Centre project is celebrating another major award, this time for a huge £900,000 from the European Union.

Highlight during March were two sightings of spoonbill, with birds on Flat Beach on the 7th and 30th when two were seen.

Plans for the new Discovery Centre being developed for Rye Harbour Nature Reserve received a massive boost this week with the news that not one – but three – major funding organisations have agreed to award over £1.75 million to...