RXwildlife Sightings

The Hastings Trust are holding an environmental event on Saturday 18th June, 10am - 4pm at The Old Coachworks, Upper Broomgrove Road, Ore Valley, TN34 3PH.

• Music, activities, stalls, energy advice and demonstrations of all things ‘green’
• Local schools show their vision for the pier of the future, all made from recycled materials
• Take part in a straw bale build, den building, junk modelling, or just watch everyone else!

FREE entry - come along and enjoy a great day out for all.

10am - 4pm at the Hastings Adventure Playground, Ore Valley.

See http://www.hastingstrust.com/EcoFabulous.html for more info.

See lots of wildlife events all this week across the RX area by clicking here.

WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE
Come to the public opening of our Pebble Trail.
Turn up any time between 11.00 am and 3.00 pm to make a pebble trail badge, enter our Name-the-Leafhopper competition and decorate your own pebble paperweight before going out to explore the pebble trail. Find out how the whale bones were found on the reserve, what animals live on and between the pebbles, why the lakes were excavated and how pebbles can give you good luck! Let our friendly leafhopper show you the way !

FREE ENTRY FOR FAMILIES ALL DAY

Help survey and clean up litter on the Rye Harbour beach this Sunday as part of the Marine Conservation Society’s ‘Adopt-a-Beach’ programme.

Litter surveys take place at Rye Harbour and Pett Level four times a year; the spring surveys will take place on Sunday 15th May at 2pm at Rye Harbour, and on Sunday 22nd May at 10am at Pett Level.

Please come along and help with these national surveys - your efforts will be rewarded with great views, good birdwatching, fabulous company and….biscuits!

For the Rye Harbour survey meet at Rye Harbour car park, for the Pett Level survey meet on the sea wall by the Smugglers pub.

For more details please email RHNR.office@eastsussex.gov.uk or telephone 01797 227784.

Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th
Free admission
Join us for a celebration of the wonderful wildlife of Dungeness.
Free guided walks, talks, Images of Dungeness photography exhibition, optics demo, Country Innovation clothing. Come early (9.30) and see what’s in our moth trap. On Saturday get top tips on wildlife photography from David Featherbe. Look for our purple herons, hear the booming bittern…

Exhibition of original paintings and prints by Stephen Message.
10 am to 4 pm daily until 22nd January.

The Events programme for 2011 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is now available. Downloadable from HERE or as a leaflet available from Lime Kiln Cottage. The leafet also has a revised map (below) with all the new wetland features of Rye Harbour Farm, or VIEW HERE. Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve will get the events leaflet next week with their Newsletter. Why not JOIN HERE NOW…

Today is National Poetry Day. Click here for poem by John Davidson called In Romney Marsh

From missing links between dinosaurs and birds and the fabrication of whole ornithological expeditions to birds who use deceit, mimicry and imitation, there is no shortage of examples of fraud in the bird world. This will be a fascinating afternoon for anyone interested in either birding or fakery! A Talk by Nik Borrow, Saturday 9 October 2010 at 2pm, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Tickets: £3 to include tea & cakes. Free to members of Hastings & St Leonards Museum Association. Available from Museum Reception or telephone 01424 451052

Saturday 14 and Sunday 15, 10 am - 5 pm
Our big day out! Attractions include guided walks, children’s activities, arts and crafts, local wildlife organisations, a binocular and telescope demo and all day BBQ. Free admission for all.