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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Sunday, 4 May 2008

WALKABOUT WEST

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Some more warm weather on Sunday 4th brought the butterflies out, like this suitably named green-veined white with the pronounced venation ...
Monday, 4 June 2007

WALKABOUT WEST

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Sunday 3rd was another warm and sunny day. Gentle circular stroll of about a mile round the western edge of West Mersea in the afternoon del...
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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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