The black brant and pale-bellied brent goose were feeding with fifty dark-bellied brent geese on the edge of the saltmarsh by the Firs caravan park. Birds noted during the walk along the Strood seawall were two buzzards, Mediterranean gull, three black-tailed godwits, two avocets, 16 linnets and a singing Cetti's warbler by the Strood layby.
Two small tortoiseshell butterflies were seen along the seawall and a brimstone butterfly in the Firs Chase garden on Friday.
On Friday at the entrance to the Youth Camp, Andy Field watched 15-20 siskins feeding in the alders. In the Rewsalls / boating lake area were a chiffchaff, mistle thrush, buzzard, 80 curlew, 50 turnstones, 4 avcoets, bar-tailed godwit, while a Slavonian grebe and sixty great crested grebes were seen offshore.
Steve Entwistle visited Feldy View and the Strood channel on Friday afternoon and saw two chiffchaff, two avocets, six black-tailed godwits and 20 corn buntings.
A peacock butterfly was enjoying the sunshine by the East Mersea Golfhouse on Thursday 17th. Also enjoying the morning sunshine at Cudmore Grove were an adder and a grass-snake near the car park.
Several buzzards seemed to be on the move with fifteen seen in the air in various small groups just north of the country park, also two marsh harriers, two sparrowhawks and two kestrels seen.
Six siskins flew west near the Golfhouse and later in the morning two siskin were seen flying east over to Brightlingsea, also a redwing seen just north of the park.
A skylark was having a dust-bath along the top of the park seawall on Thursday.
Two pairs of avocets were on the side lake beside the East Mersea boating lake on Wednesday 16th - the first time avocets have been seen here on the Rewsalls marshes area.
Also on the Rewsalls side lake were 30 turnstone, five black-tailed godwits, 20 redshank and two little egrets. A muntjac deer was seen scampering away from the seawall by the boating lake into the undergrowth of the Youth Camp.
The black brant and a pale-bellied brent goose were with 400 brent geese in the wheat field behind the East Mersea boating lake on Wednesday morning. After a while the flock flew onto the lake for twenty minutes before returning to the field.
A flock of thirty siskin was feeding silently in some alders at the bottom of the East Mersea vineyard field, also in the alders were ten goldfinches and a redwing.
A fieldfare was feeding with 25 linnets in the Waldegraves caravan park on Wednesday, also twenty redwing, Mediterranean gull and a singing chiffchaff here. Offshore from Cross Lane was a great northern diver.
A red squirrel watched proceedings in the Firs Chase garden from high up in a cedar tree on Wednesday morning.
On the Rewsalls marshes at high tide on Tuesday 15th were six snipe, 95 curlew, 30 redshank, ten teal and three little egrets, while a Cetti's warbler was singing beside the Coopers Beach football pitch.
At the country park pond on Thursday were five pochard and four tufted duck with a chiffchaff singing from the trees behind.
In the nearby grazing fields were 100 wigeon, 50 teal and two snipe and ten lapwing, while on the Golfhouse pools were two avocets, 100 wigeon and 100 brent geese nearby.
Steve Entwistle on Thursday saw four siskins in alders and a redwing by the Vineyard, two buzzards in Rewsalls Lane with another four passing over the Strood later. At Maydays two short-eared owls were seen by Steve, one on Langenhoe and one on Reeveshall, also six marsh harriers, three buzzards, sparrowhawk and 118 shelduck in the Pyefleet.
Michael Thorley had good views of two red kites circling low over Reeveshall marshes on Thursday morning, also a female marsh harrier and three reed buntings.
There was a report on Thursday of a white-tailed eagle being seen from Old Hall marshes as it came from Mersea then flying over Old Hall heading inland north-west.
Andy Field reported two buzzards and a brimstone butterfly on Thursday morning seen from his West Mersea garden.
Offshore two Slavonian grebes, 140 great crested grebes, great northern diver and a red-throated diver were seen. A Mediterranean gull passed overhead.
On Tuesday afternoon a brambling perched in several tree-tops calling near the southern end of Shop Lane, also nearby a tawny owl was heard calling in mid afternoon.
Martin Cock walked the path between Shop Lane and Meeting Lane on Tuesday and saw at least one brambling with a finch flock, also a chiffchaff, two yellowhammers and six redwing. Later Steve beside Fishponds Wood in Shop Lane saw two siskin and a brambling with a couple of chaffinches high in the conifers.
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