Author Barry Yates With all the recent improvements to habitats at our Rye Harbour Nature Reserve there has been a corresponding improvement in the quantity and quality of wildlife. One group of birds that it now excels in is PLOVERS. … Continue reading
Author Barry Yates Bird migration does not just happen during the spring and autumn. All year round there are birds flying great distances to survive in their own very specialised worlds. During freezing December weather lapwing and skylarks may fly … Continue reading
Author Barry Yates … is the title of a much acclaimed book that highlights successful conservation projects around the world. It’s very readable and thought provoking, but can be summarised by three lists. The in depth case studies visited by … Continue reading
Author Barry Yates …should be the motto of terns. These elegant seabirds depend on a good supply of fish to raise their young and in some years the fish and the weather conspire against this. But the good news is … Continue reading
Author Barry Yates RX is the registration lettering for boats based at Hastings, Rye and Dungeness = Rye, susseX This coast, its river valleys and woodland is also a biodiversity hotspot with large numbers of rare and endangered plants and … Continue reading
Author Barry Yates This time of year in the Sussex countryside is amazing. There is so much happening and we all have our favourite returning sights – be it the flowering of plants like bluebells or the emergence of the … Continue reading
Author Barry Yates It’s like this every year at Rye Harbour. We get a lovely spring day like last Thursday and we feel like spring has arrived. . . Skylarks singing invisibly up high Lapwings tumbling and peewitting Redshank yodelling … Continue reading
Author Barry Yates Today was the day to celebrate the biodiversity of our wetlands (see www.ramsar.org) and it just so happens it was the day I read the latest edition of British Birds. There has been a big effort to … Continue reading
Author Barry Yates My birding life has been dominated by wading birds or shorebirds. From studying redshank nesting on saltmarsh in Lancashire, counting breeding greenshank in the flow country, to following the brief and curious breeding season of the red-necked … Continue reading
