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 -

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Monday, 3 January 2011

SEA-DUCK OFFSHORE

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The mid-morning high tide on Monday 3rd brought these brent geese closer to the shore to graze the algae on the mud. The geese and several ...
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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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