We already know from BTO recoveries that wintering Green Sandpipers in the UK normally breed in Scandinavia, but now we have more specific news of where one of the Rye Meads wintering birds goes to breed. It's even been photographed there!
Bearded Tits are irregular winter visitors to Rye Meads. Where do they come from and why are they only occasional in winter?
An Arctic spell interrupted unseasonably mild weather. How did this affect our birds? We still had some interesting sightings!
This excellent new book, including a chapter about Rye Meads, describes how we will all need to consider the carbon footprint of our birding activities in future, and is now available at the RSPB Visitor Centre.
As summer visitors gave way to winter visitors, headlines were stolen by our biggest flock of Bearded Tits for 43 years, and our 5th Spoonbill - but other records were also set!
It's always interesting to catch foreign ringed birds for what that can tell us, like these two refugees from wintry weather further east.
A fairly arduous couple of months, for birds and ringers alike, with ongoing drought conditions and record high temperatures. But we still managed to find some interesting birds!
An almost total loss of chicks from our Gull and Tern colony was sadly the main news of the period. We think we know the culprit...
Back in September 2016, a juvenile female Bittern that had been in care after an accident was released at Rye Meads with one of our rings on it. Alan Harris provides the latest news on her story.
For the first time in two years, we've been allowed back into the South Lagoons, and our observations (and ringing) have been boosted as a result. But what species had a record count for Rye Meads?
