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Grew up in Stone-in-Oxney the other side of the border, always went to the Rye harbour side of the Rother to avoid the grockles at Camber, first place I ever saw an avocet.
Mr_Smyth-
How's the one big eye in the middle of your forehead?
Actually, I know Oxney well, there's a 500 acre farm at Ebony I walk around regularly. You'll know the big lakes at Rye Harbour, I fish them, a great place to see birds when you're sitting doing sod all for long periods, the bitterns are a highlight.
Colin_the_Bald
When your sister is your mother.... Limited surnames on the marsh.
Yep, in the vast urban sprawl of Cock Marling, just west of Rye, population about 75, some of them alive.
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is well worth a visit next time you're down, excellent for waders. I see most of the curlews on the landward marshy fields behind the sea wall at Winchelsea Beach. I'm lucky, I have a couple of thousand acres (none of it mine) that I can walk around.