A Little Grebe, facing to the right, swims on blue water. The bird is brown with a white rear, black eye, and dark bill. The rear feathers are very fluffy giving a 'powder puff' appearance and water droplets from its most recent dive glisten on its body.
A Little Grebe looking particularly #Photogenic in the late afternoon sunlight for #BirdOfTheDay
#Birds 🪶 #LittleGrebe #Nature #Wildlife #Birding #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography #RyeHarbour
A small wading bird, facing to the left, stands in water. The Redshank is light brown with pale coloured underparts. It has long, thin bright orange legs, a black eye, and a black bill with an orange base.
Redshank #StandingInWater for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme
#Birds 🪶 #Redshank #Waders #Nature #Wildlife #Birding #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography #RyeHarbour
A Redshank, facing front, stands in shallow water, its bright red/orange legs visible above the water. The bird is light brown, it has a bright black eye, and a long bill with a base the same colour as its legs and a black tip. The upper background is brown mud at the water's edge with the afternoon sunlight glinting on shiny brown pebbles.
Redshank for #WaderWednesday
#Birds 🪶 #Redshank #Waders #Nature #Wildlife #Birding #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography #RyeHarbour
Side view of a brown wasp with yellow-ish abdomen. Its head and antennae are to the left of picture, head has a large red eye. Wings are together and held at a diagonal angle above the body. Ovipositor can be seen going from abdomen toward lower right corner of picture
A female Ooctonus vulgatus wasp of the Mymaridae found 11.4.2025 on the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
Looking down onto a tiny brown wasp with its head and antennae to the top of picture. It has very narrow wings that have long fringe hairs.
Wing fringe Wednesday?
A 0.4mm long female Litus cynipseus wasp of the Mymaridae found 19.11.2025 at Rye Harbour Nature reserve. This is a very commonly found species, but (like most things in the natural realm) it is rather wonderful when you look closely.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
Side view of a tiny wasp. Its bright yellow head with a large red eye is to the left of picture.Its body is predominantly a smoky grey colour. Its wings are held vertically above the body; they are paddle-shaped with long fringe hairs, and they have a smoky area at their bases.
A beautiful 0.5mm long Uscana princeps wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 5.9.2023 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #RyeHarbour
Side view of a tiny brown wasp. Its head and antennae are to the left of picture, head has a large red eye. Blade-like fringed wings are held vertically above body. Ovipositor is horizontal below abdomen to the right of the picture.
A rather fine 0.6mm long female Anaphes crassicornis wasp of the Mymaridae found 19.11.2025 at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
A rural landscape with a pale grey sky above a green grass mid-ground above a brown wind-burnt rough grass foreground. In the centre of the picture there are five yellow haul trucks that are driving from left to right. The haul trucks are transporting shingle dredged from the river mouth at Rye Harbour. They are depositing it between Winchelsea Beach and Pett Level in order to replenish the beach after shingle has been eroded by storms. If the beach weren't replenished in this way it would result in the sea wall becoming undermined, and thence the inundation of Pett Level.
It's that time again. #RyeHarbour
Latest on bio-beads and our meeting with Southern Water.
#RyeHarbour
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Side view of a tiny yellow wasp. Its head and antennae are to the left of picture. Its head has a large bright red eye. Clear, paddle-shaped fringed wings are held vertically above body.
A 0.8mm long female Paracentrobia pulchella wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 15.5.2025 on the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour. This is a very common species around the Nature Reserve, with large populations throughout the summer.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #RyeHarbour
view from above of a tiny brown wasp with its wings outstretched either side of the wasp's body, its head and antennae are to the top of picture.
A 0.6mm long female Anaphes flavipes wasp of the Mymaridae found 29.10.2025 near Castle Water of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
View from above of a black wasp with wings outstretched
Side view of a black wasp, its head and antennae are to the left of picture
View from above of the scutellum of a black wasp
A female Kleidotoma nigra wasp of the Figitidae, Eucoilidae, found at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve yesterday.
#UKWildlife #RyeHarbour #wasps #Eucoilidae #Figitidae
Side view of a tiny dark brown wasp. Its narrow, blade-like wings are fringed with hairs. Head and long antennae are to the left of picture.
A beautiful 0.6mm long female Anaphes flavipes parasitoid wasp of the Mymaridae found at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this morning.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
A Little Grebe swims on grey coloured water, facing to the right. The small bird is brown with fluffy feathers to the rear. It has a bright black eye and a dark orange beak.
Little Grebe at #RyeHarbour
#Birds 🪶 #Grebe #Nature #Wildlife #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdPhotography
A sitting Oystercatcher amongst the Sea Lavender at #RyeHarbour a year or two back #birds #wildflowers
A small bird perches on top of a brown wooden log, head turned to the right, against a background of light blue water. The Kingfisher has an orange breast, a blue head with and an orange face, and its dark coloured beak is long and sharp.
Absolutely delighted to spot (and get a half decent photo) of this #Kingfisher at #RyeHarbour yesterday.
#Birds 🪶 #Nature #Wildlife #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdPhotography
A small brown wading bird with a long black beak and bright orange legs, facing to the left. picks it's way through marshland (water, mud, and green and brown vegitation) searching for food.
#Redshank for #WaderWednesday
#Birds 🪶 #Waders #WadingBirds #Nature #Wildlife #Birding #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography #RyeHarbour
Arenaria interpres, Turnstone, at #RyeHarbour on 23/9, a “fairly common winter visitor” recorded in 8.6% of Sussex tetrads (Sussex Bird Report 2023 @sussexornitholo.bsky.social ). From Scandinavia, Russia or even Greenland or Canada to the shores of Rye Bay.
#sussexbirding
#ukbirding
Red hut at Rye Harbour
Today’s random naturerish pic. From earlier in the summer. One of my favourite places #RyeHarbour
Sunny view over Rye Harbour Nature Reserve..
Beautiful walk at Rye Harbour Nature reserve this morning #ryeharbour ..
A black and white wasp with blade-like fringed wings held vertically above body, head and antennae are to the right of picture
A beautiful female Erythmelus rex parasitoid wasp of the Mymaridae found on the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
#UKWildlife #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
black wasp, its head and antennae are to the right of picture, and the head has a strange right-angled projection in front of the eyes
A rather wonderful male Sparasion rufipes parasitoid wasp of the Scelionidae found on the shingle at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
Have only ever found one specimen of this genus previously, and at a different location. This was a good find!
#UKWildlife #wasps #RyeHarbour #Scelionidae
A strange Scale Insect (presumably) found on the shingle at Rye Harbour near some sparse windblown grasses. Doesn't look quite right for Lecanopsis formicarum, but in that sort of area. Anyone got any thoughts?
#Coccidae #RyeHarbour
black wasp with dark orange legs that is a mimic of a black ant, head and antennae are to the left of picture
Probably a Gelis fallax wasp found on the salt marsh at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this morning. Love a good mimic!
#UKWildlife #wasps #RyeHarbour #Ichneumonidae
a dark brown thrips insect with a white central band at the front of its abdomen, head and antennae are to the upper right
Found a beautiful Aeolothrips albicinctus on the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve yesterday. Not found this species there before.
#UKWildlife #Thrips #Thysanoptera #RyeHarbour
a mottled brown tardigrade viewed from below, its head end and mouthparts are to the left of picture, its clawed legs are to either side of body and at the right of picture
A rather nice Ramazzottius aff oberhaeuseri tardigrade found on the shingle near the old lifeboathouse at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this morning.
#UKWildlife #Tardigrade #RyeHarbour
a tiny brown wasp with blade like fringed wings held vertically above body, head and antennae to the right
A 0.6mm long female Anaphes parallelipennis parasitoid wasp of the Mymaridae found on vegetated shingle at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve on 9.4.2025.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Mymaridae #RyeHarbour
a tiny black Thrips insect with black and white banded fringed wings, head and antennae to the right of picture
A female Aeolothrips intermedius found on the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
#UKWildlife #Thrips #Thysanoptera #RyeHarbour
tiny yellow wasp with dark smudge markings and a bright red eye, its paddle shaped wings are held vertically over the body and have a dark spot on the clear fringed wing, head and antennae are to the right of picture
One of eighteen beautiful 0.8mm long Paracentrobia pulchella parasitoid wasps of the Trichogrammatidae found on the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve yesterday. These are the first Trichos of this year and are a welcome find.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #RyeHarbour
