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 -

Friday, 31 August 2007

BREEZY EVENING STROLL

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Went for a Friday evening walk on the 31st August along the Reeveshall seawall. The area not quite as desterted as usual as I had sort of c...
Thursday, 30 August 2007

SHELTERED HOTSPOT

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The moth trap was run on the nights of both Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th. The cool wind is blowing from the north-west and combined with ...
Tuesday, 28 August 2007

WALK TO THE POINT

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By the time I went for a stroll to the East Mersea Point in the early evening of Tuesday 28th, the clouds had turned very grey and the breez...
Monday, 27 August 2007

CLOUDED YELLOW

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For a change this was an August bank holiday with lots of sunshine. For a change too, there were actually people out walking and enjoying th...

SPOTTED A FLYCATCHER

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Summer returned just in time for the bank holiday weekend with Saturday 25th being the first hot day for two or three weeks here on Mersea. ...

REEDBED ROOST

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It was still cloudy for most of Friday 24th but the wind dropped, making it more pleasant. An hour on the Reeveshall seawall around mid-day ...
Thursday, 23 August 2007

DANCING FOXES

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No sign of the much talked about global warming here on Mersea Island over the last few days. Another grey morning on Thursday 23rd with a c...
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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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