June 26, 2015 archive

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.

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RSPB Dungeness : 26th June 2015

RSPB Dungeness : 26th June 2015

On the morning of the 26th we stopped at Dereck Jarman’s garden first before heading off for RSPB Dungeness which I had never been to before but was curious to see. We started by dropping into the visitor centre where we immediately got a good year tick when one of the staff pointed out a Common Gull sitting on a nest on a raft just in front of the reception ; there was also a pair of nesting Oystercatchers on the same raft. In fact Common Gulls at this site were extremely common and were one of the many goodsightings we had.

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