If you're into footy and Manchester post-punk music, you'll understand why the 'Panic on the Streets of London' banner at City just now is so brilliant.
#football
#TheSmiths

A small reddish insect at the end of a hairy green leaf.

Look amoungst the many thousands of St Mark's Flies around Rye and there are smaller numbers of what appear to be a 'mini' versions of the insect. These are the males of the related Bibio anglicus. The females, pictured, look quite different, being red, not black.
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#Bugsky

A view from a bird hide over flooded saltmarsh with shingle islands beyond and a blue sky above. It is high tide.

Highlights at @sussexwildlife.bsky.social with Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve 'Guide in a Hide' today included 14+ Whimbrel, 4+ Greenshank, 300 Sandwich and two other Tern species, Bar-tailed Godwit, loadsa Avocet, Wheatear etc etc. Great Day!
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Chocolate Mining Bee. A dark brown bee on a bright green leaf.

Tawny Mining Bee. A fiery tawny and orange bee on a green leaf.

Ashy Mining Bee. A pretty grey and black bee on yellow flowers.

Yellow-legged Bee. A striped black and yellow bee on a dark green leaf.

Mining Bees have been plentiful in the garden lately. Here are four: Chocolate, Tawny, Ashy and Yellow-legged.
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A large plant with big, fleshy leaves and white and yellow flowers, growing on shingle near the sea. The River Rother can just be been in the background. It's sunny, but there are clouds in the sky.

The first Sea Kale flowers are out at Rye Harbour NR and soon a sweet honey aroma will hang over the shingle.
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#WildflowerHour

Beyond a sewer (ditch) is a wetland habitat with shallow lagoons, reedbeds and bits of scrub. The sky is dark and angry. It got sunny later!

A long walk down the Brede Valley into Rye. Stretches of almost nothing at all, punctuated by habitat hotspots. 65 bird species included 2 Green Sandpiper, 15+ Lapwing, 7 Cattle Egret, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 20 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 4 Marsh Harrier and 2+ Red Kite.
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#birds

A bright green wide, flat insect on a bright green, flat leaf, with other green leaves of various shades around. A tableau of greens. And greens are good for you.

Everything's gone Green Shieldbug.
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#Spring
#Sussexwildlife
#bugsky

A large, shiny black fly on a bright green leaf.

St Mark's Flies are out at Castle Water this afternoon, a full week earlier than last year and 11 days before St Mark's Day, when they traditionally emerged. This is the female with little eyes.
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A low, wide castle - Camber Castle - in a grassland setting, with blue sky and a few fluffy clouds.

82 bird species at Rye Harbour NR today, with 3 sp of tern, 6 Whimbrel, 1 Spotted Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Yellow Wagtail, loadsa warblers including 2 Lesser Whitethroat, a few hirundines and a Common Scoter at Castle Water.
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Top Ten golfing birdies:
Tiger Woodsandpiper
Rory Mcllroystercatcher
Tom Watsong thrush
Justin Roseate tern
Nick Faldodo
Lee Westwoodpigeon
FulmArnold Palmerganser
Jack Snipe Nicklaus
Ben Crenshawfinch
Tom Red Kite
#UKbirds

#WoodlandPlants
#Wildflowerhour

Male Green-winged Teal standing in shallow water, green-and-chestnut head and grey patterned body.

Bird of the month - Green-winged Teal! And many more delights. David Bentley's round up of what wildlife was seen at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in March sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/rye-harbour-nature-...

Tall spikes of impressive magenta flowers and large, glossy, sometimes spotted leaves in a woodland setting.

A significant increase in Early Purple Orchid spikes in our local wood this year. 💜
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#wildflowerhour
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An attractive and rather dark bee, with dark browns and light browns, on a light green leaf in the sun.

Chocolate Mining Bee in the garden just now.
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A view from a bird hide over saltmarsh and saline lagoons under bright blue skies on a warm spring day.

4 new species for the reserve's year at Rye Harbour NR 'Guide in a Hide' at Gooders Hide: 5 Little & 1 Common Tern, 4 Whimbrel and 1 Yellow Wagtail. Influx of Sandwich Tern: 300+ today, 40 Golden Plover in summer gear. Ace human visitors too! 🙂
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Gooders Hide, Rye Harbour NR: 4 Whimbrel, 2 Little Tern, 1 Yellow Wagtail etc
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A view of the sea beyond a shingle beach, with blue skies and bright sun reflecting off the water.

Stunning morning at Rye Harbour NR with 70+ sp of bird. A bunch of Sedge Warbler new in with a couple of Wheatear. 125+ Sandwich Tern squeezing onto some tiny islands. Excellent views of Grey Partridge and the moulting Spotted Redshank.
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An attractive hairy black and grey/white winged insect on small yellow-ish flowers.

One of the best... Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria) on Alexanders at Castle Water, Rye Harbour NR today.
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Close-up of the head and thorax of a small black, yellow and orange bee.

Close-up of a sleepy Gooden's Nomad Bee in the garden this morning.
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Close-up of the head and thorax of a small black, yellow and orange bee.

Close-up of a sleepy Gooden's Nomad Bee in the garden this morning.
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A brown fly that mimics a bee, with a long proboscis and a very dark broad front margin to its wings.

...and here's the Dark-edged Bee-fly for comparison.
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An orangey-brown fly, that mimics a bee, with a long proboscis and obvious dots on its wings.

Much outnumbered by the Dark-edged Bee-fly, this Dotted Bee-fly was in our garden this afternoon.
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A fallen tree trunk by the side of a river. There are 'knaw marks' made by a Beaver.

Beaver action along the River Stour in Canterbury city, Kent.
GO NATURE! 🤎
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A piece of card set on a tablecloth reading 'Benign Positional Paroxymal Vertigo BPPV Eplay manoeuvre,' in handwriting.

Helping with mum's paperwork. She's a BIG Fall fan. Found her track list of the lost 'Benign Positional Paroxymal' EP.
1. 'Vertigo' - 9 minute base-driven Steve Hanley classic.
2. 'BPPV' - almost unlistenable M.E. Smith slur-rant.
3. 'Eplay Manoeuvre' - a clever guitar-pop Brix number.
#FallFriday

Cutting bus services (including now NO Sunday service to Rye Harbour, with residents and 1,000s of visitors) is a local e.g. of how we have NO idea how to tackle poverty, climate change, pollution, safety and can't nurture anything that is GOOD in society. I feel anger and despair in equal measure.

...this is surely the bird seen on 19 March, I think just for the day. I don't know the finder.

A shingle beach, with old groynes, and bright blue sea and sky beyond. The cliffs at Fairlight, Hastings, are visible to the west.

Highlights at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this morning included Green-winged Teal, Spotted Redshank, c125 Sandwich Tern, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Grey Partridge, 67 sp. Wheatear yesterday evening at Castle Water.
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Male Green-winged Teal on little shingle spit, near western-most fenced Island, in centre of Salt Pool, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
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A black and yellow striped insect on a bright yellow flower.

On a cool, breezy day almost everything of interest in the garden was on a Dandelion - of course it was 💛 - including this Gooden's Nomad Bee.
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#bees
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#wildflowerhour

A piece of card set on a tablecloth reading 'Benign Positional Paroxymal Vertigo BPPV Eplay manoeuvre,' in handwriting.

Helping with mum's paperwork. She's a BIG Fall fan. Found her track list of the lost 'Benign Positional Paroxymal' EP.
1. 'Vertigo' - 9 minute base-driven Steve Hanley classic.
2. 'BPPV' - almost unlistenable M.E. Smith slur-rant.
3. 'Eplay Manoeuvre' - a clever guitar-pop Brix number.
#FallFriday