Rye Harbour Nature Reserve : 26th June 2015

Rye Harbour Nature Reserve : 26th June 2015

Having spent the morning ot RSPB Dungeness we spent some time walking around Rye Town and we found ourselves with a little time at the end of the day so we made a return visit to Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. This time we took another path to reach the “Steve Denny Hide” where we hoped to try again for Little Terns. This involved entering the Leisure Park (actually a static mobile home park) and walked through the middle of it, turning slightly left near the far end and walking over a bridge over a small stream. Following this round took us to a more inland part of the reserve than we had been to before.

There are actually two hides almost back to back with each other. At the first hide we saw good numbers of Avocets and Common Terns amid a colony of noisy Black-headed Gulls. Interestingly there were only Common Terns from the Steve Denny hide and all the Sandwich Terns were seen at the backing hide, the one that overlooks the Ternary Pool. There wasn’t much more to be seen apart from some nice Skylarks and a smattering of Shelduck, Oystercatchers and Redshanks – but still no Little Terns annoyingly. Still, the Sandwich Terns were a nice year tick. Perhaps we needed to get further down in the Winchelsea direction but we didn’t have the time so it was back to the New Inn for dinner and a few beers !

Bird Sightings : Rye Harbour Nature Reserve