Some birds on WeBS count between Rye and Camber: 1 Spoonbill, 47 Brent Geese, 183 Golden Plover, 97 Lapwing, 68 Curlew, 32 Dunlin, 74 Redshank, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Great White Egret, 2 Kingfisher. Also 100s of Goldfinch.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The incredible Pale Tussock moth caterpillar in Rye today. The adult is grey!🤭
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October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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A lovely soft light and a flat calm sea at Broomhill Sands, Rye where there were 4 Red-throated Diver, 100 Gannet - some close in - 200 Oystercatcher heading west, 75 Sandwich Tern and an Arctic Skua.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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In our garden Fleabane flowered forever 💛, and it was good enough to pass the baton onto Yarrow 🤍 (pictured) which is still going strong well in October. Hoverflies send their thanks.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A couple of Arctic Skuas were bothering Sandwich Terns close in at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this morning. Like they don't have enough to worry about, with a 4,000km journey to West Africa looming.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Windy on the edge of East Guldeford Level, East Sussex: Hobby, Peregrine, 81 Curlew, 65 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, 5 Stonechat, 65 Skylark, 1 Corn Bunting, dozens of Meadow Pipit, 100s of House Martin & Swallow.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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This curious little creature, like a taxiing glider aircraft, has the wonderful name of Flutter Fly! This is Toxonevra muliebris, in Rye, East Sussex.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Extolling the virtues of Ivy as a super-supporter of wildlife, in Rye News.
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In evergreen support of Ivy | Rye News
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September 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I pay close attention to each passing Swallow because this elegant flow will soon become a trickle and then they'll be gone, but for a memory of sleek, blue-glossed transcendence.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A Field Digger Wasp or similar species at Castle Water, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve today.
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September 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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At the Sussex WT/Friends of RHNR 'Guide in a Hide' we love showing the birds to visitors. Today that included Glossy Ibis, Greenshank, Knot, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail and - my favourite - 42 Golden Plover that dropped in as we watched.
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September 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Pied Flycatcher at Playden, near Rye - elusive, but viewable from public footpath that runs roughly West-East at TQ9266 2236 and then look NW towards the hedge that runs North-South.
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September 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Quick whizz around Castle Water, Rye Harbour NR this afternoon: 1 Black Tern, c850 Sand Martin, 2 Hobby, 4 Cattle Egret, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Common Sandpiper and 1 Kingfisher.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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In tribute to our common or garden species... a bluebottle on ivy.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Just when it felt like the last knockings of the insect season, Ivy comes into flower and things are buzzzzzin' again. Here with one of many Ivy Bees around Rye today.
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September 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A male Redstart was filling up on berries from this Dogwood in a hedge near our house. Supercharging it's energy resources before the big journey south.
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September 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A tiny Red Malachite Beetle, Anthocomus rufus, lurking in the reedbed at Castle Water, Rye Harbour NR, this morning. Nearby were 4 Hobby, 12 Wheatear, 3 species of egret, plenty of Sand Martin and a Swift.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Loadsa Yellow Wagtails from the cycle path between Northpoint near Rye and Camber, East Sussex. An absolute minimum of 65, but likely approaching 100, this afternoon. I love Yellow Wagtails, me. 💛
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September 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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... and here are Humming-bird Hawk-moths as we usually see them in our garden.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Humming-bird Hawk-moths look very different with their orange hindwings hidden. This one is quite well camouflaged, avoiding wind and showers in our Rye garden.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This hedge 'traps' so many more migrants than other superficially similar ones locally. In the last week there's been 12+ ever-present Spotted and a Pied Flycatcher, today a Restart and much more. I think I know why, but it might also be that I stare at it a lot!
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September 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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A few of the many balletic Swallows owning the skies above the Oxney Organic Estate, near Rye, East Sussex.
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August 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Just found a new (to me at least) colony of Autumn Lady's-tresses near Camber, East Sussex and so today is a Good Day.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I used to see one, two, maybe three Humming-bird Hawk Moths in our garden each summer. This year they've been ever-present since early July, with up to five here at a time. I'm super-appreciative, but conflicted.
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August 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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This Small Copper butterfly has been on Yarrow in the garden all afternoon, waiting for a potential mate, and battering any other insect - however large - that dares to enter its personal space. INSECT ACTION!!
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August 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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