The walls of Camber Castle have several plants with wall in their name…

July saw the addition of yet another plant to the reserve list with the discovery of several red bartsia at Castle Water late in the month.

​If there is one species associated with Rye Harbour Nature Reserve it is the Little Tern

With more than 90 species of bird nesting at Rye Harbour it takes the SWT team a lot of time to determine numbers of pairs and breeding success every year.

One of the highlights on the reserve in recent years has been the increase in Avocets…

Twenty people came from far and wide over the weekend to attend a Bee Identification course at Rye Harbour run by well-known naturalist and entomologist Steven Falk.

Bird highlight during June was a black-winged stilt which was present briefly at the western end of Harbour Farm on the 2nd of the month.

BBC1’s Escape to the Country visited Rye Harbour nature reserve

Bird highlight during May was at least one Temminck’s stint which was present on Harbour Farm on the 1st and 7th.

​PWC is a friendly competition between patch birders which has been running since 2013. Late Spring Update