16th June 2019 - Filsham Reedbed and Rye Harbour

My first visit to Filsham reedbed where a very late nightingale and a cuckoo were heard singing. A circuit of Rye Harbour taking in The Quarry, Ternery Pool and Flat Beach was hard work in the blustery conditions with not a lot to show for our efforts bar a grey plover, a greenshank and a couple of little terns plus the tail end of stinking hawksbeard Crepis foetida in flower in the fenced enclosure near the beach. The afternoon was spent looking for more rare plants with spiked rampion in abundance on a verge near Blackboys but no sign of any musk orchids on the downs near Lewes.

Spiked Rampion, Blackboys, East Sussex