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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1h

In nature, resources are limited, so competition for food can be fierce. Barry Clough captured this Herring Gull hoping to swipe the fish the Cormorant has just snaffled. Not this time, buddy. Cormorant 1, Herring Gull 0

Herring Gull hovering over a cormorant with a fish in its beak

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 18h

We are looking for a focused and strategic leader who will help build an inclusive movement of people taking action for wildlife.

sussexwt.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details...

#GreenJobs #EDI #CommunityEngagement #Sussex

Image of deciduous woodland taken from above, overlaid with text: Sussex Wildlife Trust - We're hiring! - Director of Communities (Maternity Cover) - Applications close 3 Nov 2025 Image ¨ Amy King / Kai Hilton

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 19h

It's all connected!🔄The tiny Tunbridge Filmy Fern is one of many specialist species found at our epic Eridge Rocks reserve - the huge rocks providing the perfect damp and shady habitat.🌿

📸Tunbridge Filmy Fern © Neil Fletcher / Eridge Rocks © Miles Davies

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 20h

Hi Megan - anecdotal, but the on-path signage added at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this year appears to have been a resounding success, in terms of cleanliness of the path and number of dogs on leads

Signs painted onto walkway at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in Sussex saying: Dogs on leads - Pick up after your dog

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Are we the bad guys? How did newts, bats and now snails become the unlikely poster children of an anti-growth narrative? A healthy, functioning natural environment is not a luxury — it’s essential to economic resilience, public health, and wellbeing.

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Newts, bats and snails against a red background

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

The green colour on the wing of a Teal is created by the feather structure, not a pigment. The iridescence changes with the angle of the light. So in this wing flap, one wing shows green, the other blue. 📷 & words Barry Yates

Teal duck with wings out, one with patch pf green, one blue

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, she will. More here - First it was newts, then bats… now it’s snails.

sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/first-i...

First it was newts, then bats… now it’s snails. | Sussex Wildlife Trust

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Watch our Director of Conservation, Henri Brocklebank, on BBC South East news at 6:30pm tonight, talking about why nature is not the barrier to growth.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Far more than just the view. Seaford Head nature reserve provides a vital habitat for one of our rarest bees. The Potter Flower Bee nests by burrowing into the sandy soils on the clifftops and is only found at two other sites in the country

📸Potter Flower Bee ©Alex Worsley/Seaford Head ©Dennis Hunt

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

You're so vein! Barry Yates posted this photo: 'Consider the veins in the wing of this Common Darter and the veins in the leaf it's perched on... ' @rxnature.bsky.social

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Community groups! We're want you! To join us at The Deneway Nature Reserve, Brighton.
Contact Archie to discuss how we could work together [email protected]
Visits can be one-off & don’t need to involve practical conservation work - just a chance to connect with nature

Black Darter dragonfly © Simon Linington

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 3d

Mostly it was extracted from small pits but the industrial revolution led to the excavation of large quarries, today disused. The chalk cliffs of the Navigation & Southerham Pits can be viewed from the Railwayland nature reserve while Caburn & Balcombe pits can be seen from the top of Mount Caburn.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 3d

The chalk on Lewes Downs was deposited 100-66 million years ago. The chalk rock which makes up Lewes Downs is exposed in 11 former chalk pits. Chalk has been used over the centuries for a variety of agricultural & industrial purposes.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 3d

In Sussex, geodiversity is dominated by the chalk rock which underlies the South Downs & by the older sandstones & clays which underlie the High Weald, the Low Weald & the Wealden Greensand landscapes.

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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 3d

In our garden Fleabane flowered forever 💛, and it was good enough to pass the baton onto Yarrow 🤍 (pictured) which is still going strong well in October. Hoverflies send their thanks.
#UKwildlife
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A delicate white flower in front of a grassy sward.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 3d

A fab six exposure image of a Curlew flapping across the sky by
@rxnature.bsky.social

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 3d

Geology is far more than just rocks. Our geological features such as sand, rocks and sediments provide the very foundation on which everything else can live, enabling crucial habitats for plants, fungi and animals - including us!

📸Rock pipit © Alan Price

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Barry Yates @rxnature.bsky.social · 8d

The colour of the patch of green on the wing of a Teal is created by structure of the feathers and not a pigment.
The iridescence changes with the angle of the light and in this wing flap one wind shows green and the other blue.
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Barry Yates @rxnature.bsky.social · 4d

This is the most advanced moult I could find today among the drake Teal at Pett Level - still some way to go until full breeding plumage is attained.
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Barry Yates @rxnature.bsky.social · 4d

A coppiced Ash in ancient woodland near Icklesham - the leaves look like it's still summer...

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 3d

No worries! Thanks David. There's been a flurry of interest

Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any photos please David? If so, could you email them to me? Thanks. Emma

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Caroline Dianne @caroline-dianne.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Monday from the unseasonably warm South coast. Felt privileged to see for the first time a beautiful hummingbird hawk-moth. #nature #insect #moth #photography #sussex #england #video #wildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 4d

A couple of Arctic Skuas were bothering Sandwich Terns close in at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this morning. Like they don't have enough to worry about, with a 4,000km journey to West Africa looming.
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#birds

A shingle beach, with the sea beyond and a pleasant sky above.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 4d

Stonechat numbers are very high at the moment along the coast & in wetlands. Their plumage is indistinct, but will develop as the feather tips wear away. Post/pic 📷Barry Yates @rxnature.bsky.social

stonecat, small light brown bird looking to one side on a little branch

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