Hello everyone

We have changed our usual festive period opening times this year and will be closed 24 December  but open again on 1 January 2020 ready for the new year!

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

from all the Rye Meads team

Plenty of things to look forward to in 2020

  • our new Kingfisher Viewing Hub
  • what exciting moths will be in the trap
  • 3 dates for the Big Wild Sleep Out 
  • All that Warbler song
  • Nature Pirates for the summer holidays
  • an array of passage waders
  • Return of the common terns to breed on the nesting platforms
  • wintering bitterns
  • emperor moths to lure
  • the return of Esmerelda at Halloween
  • the first swift of summer
  • and of course Kingfishers

what will you be looking forward to in 2020 at Rye Meads?