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  • Running the South Coast Challenge for Sussex Wildlife Trust

    08 March 2021

    Running the South Coast Challenge for Sussex Wildlife Trust

    Helen Forester is running the South Coast Challenge to support Sussex Wildlife Trust, in her 40th birthday year. We asked her a bit more about it.

     
  • You've been framed

    08 March 2021

    You've been framed

    February is largely a calendar-planning and report-writing month for ecologists, luckily Glenn had a distraction in the form of a camouflaged green box.

     
  • A closer look at Frogbit

    07 March 2021

    A closer look at Frogbit

    Frogbit is a floating plant of freshwater. Its leaves look like a tiny water lily, but the flowers have just three delicate white petals.

     
  • Winter Bats

    05 March 2021

    Winter Bats

    ​In our effort to identify and understand the wildlife that lives in Sussex, bats have always been tricky to identify

     
  • Awakenings: Celebrating 60 years of the Sussex Wildlife Trust

    03 March 2021

    Awakenings: Celebrating 60 years of the Sussex Wildlife Trust

    Do you enjoy creative writing? We are creating an anthology to celebrate the Sussex Wildlife Trust’s 60th Anniversary in 2021 and would love you to get involved.

     
  • February 2021 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings

    01 March 2021

    February 2021 - Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sightings

    One of the bird highlights during February (certainly for me) was a Jack Snipe on Harbour Farm on the 23rd.

     
  • ​Wheatear at Rye Harbour

    27 February 2021

    ​Wheatear at Rye Harbour

    With spring just around the corner, one of the birds that will be arriving on the reserve in early March is the Wheatear.

     
  • Going Underground - animal architects of the natural world

    24 February 2021

    Going Underground - animal architects of the natural world

    The number of different homes inhabited by animals is huge, so in this blog, we’re going to look at underground homes. Because, as The Jam would put it, if you want to create a warm, dry and cosy home safe from prying eyes and predators, going underground is a popular option.

     
  • Ideal Home: Hermit Crab

    23 February 2021

    Ideal Home: Hermit Crab

    Finding a suitable shell can be quite the challenge for a small crab in a big ocean, and this life constraint has caused a number of quite unique behaviours to have evolved in hermit crabs, allowing them to find their ideal home.

     

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