RXwildlife Sightings

Recycle your trees at:

· Central car park, Camber
· Tanhouse Furniture, (opposite the Jempson store) Peasmarsh

On Saturday 6th January 2007, 10.00am – 1.00pm

Ever wondered what happens to all the Christmas trees after Twelfth Night? Many are dumped in landfill sites, while some are recycled as wood mulch. Here in the Rye Bay local people have the chance to recycle their trees and help conserve a valuable wildlife habitat.
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Three Scaup were on the Pools yesterday, along with a Kittiwake. Other birds present included 137 Wigeon, 30 Shoveler, and a distant Marsh Harrier moving into the Pannel Valley to roost.

Earlier a walk in the Brede Valley near Cadborough Cliff had turned up a small flock of six Woodlark and a pair of Stonechat.

The RX Weather page has been updated and shows how the last ten years have been warm and the last four have been dry.
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On the Beach Reserve, Short-eared Owl, Spotted Redshank, Green Sandpiper and at least 420 Curlew have been the highlights. 64 Corn Bunting were counted inflight over Lime Kiln Cottage. 39 Red-throated Diver and 100+ Common Scoter were offshore. Two Long-eared Owl were roosting in bushes at the southern end of Castle Water.

Numbers of woodland birds remain low, except for Long-tailed Tits which roam in flocks of 10 or more. Sections of the wood, both deciduous and conifer, seemed completely empty while other parts were dominated by Blue & Great Tits. Song Thrushes were feeding in peaty stream bottoms or at the base of dense hedgerows and Blackbirds sought out ivy berries but I saw only 1 Redwing.

A few Siskins and Lesser Redpolls were in circulation overhead but there was no sign of Crossbills in the stands of mature Scots Pine.

The water level is high in the gills and on the old mill pond, where an inland Water Rail was squealing from the reeds.

On the track up towards Netherfield, however, was a great concentration of birds, with at least 50 Chaffinches (mostly male) picking around some deep ruts, accompanied by several Great Tits, while above the path streamed a hard-to-count current of Great, Blue, Coal, Marsh and Long-tailedTits, along with a few Goldcrests, Treecreepers, Nuthatches and a GS Woopecker.

Sadly, there was no sight or sound of the Willow Tits which have been here in the past.
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