August saw the addition of yet another plant species to the reserve list with the discovery of a single plant of common sea lavender near the Mary Stanford lifeboat house on the 25th.

Sussex Wildlife Trust Nature Tots are back for more muddy woodland fun and games in Henfield, Brighton, Horsham, Crawley, Eastbourne and on the beach in Rye bay this September. Bushcraft activities for children aged 3-5 years, accompanied by an adult.

One of the characteristic plants of Rye Harbour at this time of the year is red hemp-nettle. This inconspicuous little relative of the mints and dead-nettles, with its red flowers and nettle-like leaves, grows on sparsely vegetated habitats on the...

Gulls, terns, skuas, waders and auks make up a large order of mostly wetland birds…

Bird highlight during April was a stone-curlew which was seen briefly on Harbour Farm on the 28th.

The third of our blog series about the EU Referendum and Sussex Wildlife, looks at ‘Natura 2000’ - the formal term for the European network of protected areas established through the nature directives.

With the arrival of spring weather at Rye Harbour I have been out and about looking for a couple of rare bee species, and yesterday I managed to find one!

March produced the first booming bittern of the year, with a single male heard regularly at Castle Water from the 12th.

A good deal of my time over the last five years has been spent monitoring the invertebrates on the new saltmarsh and shingle habitats at Rye Harbour…

One sign of the approaching spring is the appearance of cream-spot tiger caterpillars on the reserve.