30 June 2020
Rye Harbour Discovery Centre Manager Liz Grant will give us regular updates about what’s happening inside (and sometimes outside) the Discovery Centre during the final stages of the fitting process
17 June 2020
Liz Grant tells us about the Discovery Centre
28 April 2020
A poem about Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
15 April 2020
Dr Barry Yates is Sussex Wildlife Trust’s Manager at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. The reserve has just celebrated its 50th anniversary and Barry has now worked (and lived) on the reserve for 36 years. He talks about the origins of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, and what’s been happening during the last 50 years:
27 March 2020
Former Sussex Wildlife Trust CEO Dr Tony Whitbread, now Trust President, tells us why he’s bought a ‘Plover’ to help the Rye Harbour Discovery Centre Appeal
17 March 2020
On Sunday 15th, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve celebrated its 50th anniversary with a glorious, five hour walk around the whole of the nature reserve. On a day that had sunshine and a rainbow as well as some weather challenges (mostly a cold wind), 20 members of the public joined some of the Sussex Wildlife Trust team, including Dr Barry Yates, Reserve Manager for the last 37 years and Senior Learning and Engagement Officer Lucy Bowyer. Cliff Dean, Chair of the Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, and James Tomlinson (Guide in a Hide volunteer) also supported the walk. There was a great deal of combined wildlife experience in the team, and the group, who stopped in each bird hide en route, counted more than 60 different species along the way, including a rare Glossy Ibis, a Raven in Camber Castle and a grass snake swimming in Castle Water
16 March 2020
Sussex Wildlife Trust has launched a crowdfunding campaign, to help us kit out the environmental education facility at the Discovery Centre at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
The Discovery Centre will allow the learning and engagement team to host school excursions and adult education, meaning visitors of all ages can learn more about the rare and special wildlife at the reserve.
17 February 2020
Andy Dinsdale has lived in Fairlight all his life. He’s been a juggler, worked for an engineering firm is Executive Director of Strandliners, a Community Interest Company that seeks to make our rivers and seas cleaner. We speak to him at Pett Level, on a beautifully sunny February day, as the Fulmar fly overhead.
07 February 2020
We speak to Lucy Bowyer about events at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in 2020
03 February 2020
On Sunday 2nd February, Sussex Wildlife Trust led two guided, circular walks around the wetlands of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve - internationally designated as Ramsar wetlands. Twenty two people came on the morning walk, which started from Rye station. We were pleased that eight people arrived by train. We walked first to Camber Castle and then had lunch at the nearby hide, overlooking the freshwater of Castle Water. There were excellent views of Marsh Harrier and a variety of ducks, including Gadwall. Fourteen people came on the afternoon wal, which started from the car park at Rye Harbour and explored the saline wetlands.
