MERSEA WILDLIFE

WELCOME TO MERSEA ISLAND - A GEM OFF THE ESSEX COAST. FAMOUSLY DESCRIBED IN 1880:- "A MORE DESOLATE REGION CAN SCARCE BE CONCEIVED, AND YET IT IS NOT WITHOUT BEAUTY". STILL UNIQUE TODAY, CUT OFF AT HIGH TIDES, SURROUNDED BY MUD AND SALTMARSHES, MERSEA IS RICH IN COASTAL WILDLIFE. HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS -

Wednesday, 18 March 2026

FIELDFARE FLOCK

Forty fieldfares were feeding in the East Mersea Vineyard on Wednesday 18th - this one perching high up in a poplar tree. At the nearby Rews...

Wednesday, 11 March 2026

BREEZY SEAWALL WALK

A breezy day on Wednesday 11th during the walk along the Strood seawall, where this curlew was feeding on the nearby mud. The only other ...

Thursday, 5 March 2026

MAKING THE MOST OF SOME SUNSHINE

A comma butterfly was making the most of the sunshine along Cross Lane on Thursday 5th. A song thrush and singing greenfinch were of inte...

Tuesday, 3 March 2026

SOAKING UP THE SUN

The adders were making the most of the early spring sunshine at Cudmore Grove with seven individuals seen on Tuesday 3rd. This one flatteni...

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About Me

Dougal Urquhart: Mersea Island, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom; I was the ranger at Cudmore Grove Country Park in East Mersea between 1983 and 2018.

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