Tag: Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
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January-February 2025
A belated roundup of the late winter period, during which pursuit of Water Pipit became a bit of a preoccupation. Combe Valley CP is a known wintering site for the species but they are typically elusive and I struggle to get a handle on numbers. Inspired by a recent British Birds article, I wondered if…
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November-December 2024
November and December can mean only one thing: gulls, and particularly the passage of large gulls which seems to occur in Sussex at this time of year. My impression is that that years passage was more protracted, with numbers never quite reaching the heights of the great westward movements of late December last year. There…
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July 2024
The long, warm days of July can mean only one thing: it’s time to start looking for that keenly awaited marker of midsummer; the arrival of juvenile Yellow-legged Gull from southern Europe. My first this year came on the 13th, with a flyby watched moving west from West Hill. In marked contrast to the riches…
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June 2024
It’s difficult to summarise the wildly variable weather experienced here during June but it certainly felt unseasonably cool for much of it. On the 1st of the month I spent the day at Rye Harbour NR (RHNR), a safe bet for interesting birding at the time of year with the last bits of wader passage…