Saturday 18th Oct. 2025, from 08:00 – 10.30 a.m. in the Nature Reserve.
Migration watch, with Ralph Hobbs

We welcome Ralph Hobbs again to lead this popular activity. The Country Park Nature Reserve
provides a wonderful backdrop to the summer visitors heading across the Channel on their way to
relatively warmer wintering grounds and some autumn arrivals to the UK which might also be seen.
Which species participants might be treated to cannot be guaranteed. Be there to see what’s about!
Ralph has been a keen naturalist and birder all his adult life, since first becoming interested in
butterflies at junior school! With a degree in Zoology his career began in agricultural research and
crop advisory work, before joining the Sussex Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group as a
conservation adviser. He became a land management adviser for English Nature and Natural
England, more recently working as a freelance ecologist. Ralph has enjoyed watching and studying
birds and bird migration not only in Hastings Country Park and Sussex, but around the world. In
retirement Ralph is kept busy as a trustee for the Amateur Entomologists' Society, and three nature
reserve-owning NGOs.