A flowering abutilon (Indian mallow), with branches coming over the wall of a garden next to the end of the line bus stop in Rye Harbour.
There was a clear contrast in the vegetation of the shingled area of the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. The shingle had broad stretches of bare pebbles, occasionally broken by one or other member a distinctive community of plants which could cope with the trying conditions. Elsewhere, all was what seemed like an unbroken carpet; many different grasses, interspersed with meadow wildflowers, some of them salt marsh specialities.
The only plants I noticed which managed to grow both sides of this divide were mallows, which happened to be in flower we were there.
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.
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Bee orchid, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
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.
