David

Distamt shots of birds on the nest at the Rye Harbour nature Reserve, some with chicks nearby as well. There’s black headed gulls, an oystercatcher, and what are probably little terns in the series.

A second orchid in the long grass at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. Not far from the pyramid orchids were a few bee orchids. Once again, the grass was doing its best to hide the bee-imitating flowers.

The birds of Rye Harbour seemed to be more confiding than usual even outside the area of the actual Nature Reserve. This goldfinch was on a telegraph wire which crossed the road right by where the bus turned around. It didn’t give any signs of worry that I was almost directly below it.

On the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, a skylark landed on a fence post quite close by. It didn’t seem disturbed by human activity, but its attention was focussed in the opposite direction to where I was standing, so my view was mainly of the back of its head. Before takin=g off again, it did briefly turn so I managed to get on picture of the bird in profile.

Growing among the grass by a footpath on the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, a lot of wildflowers in flower at the time of our visit. Included among them, several pyramid orchids peeping through the grass leaves.

Only yards on the far side of the fence along the main path at Rye Harbour nature Reserve, a pair of oystercatchers with their already well-grown chick look for things to eat in the grass.