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, 30 January 2008

USHER OF SPRING

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Chilly but sunny on Wednesday 30th with visibility very good. The yellow flowers of gorse have been the only splash of colour around the c...

Monday, 28 January 2008

CHANGE OF SCENE

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For a change of scene, gave the seawalls a miss today and had a walk on Monday 28th along a footpath in the middle of East Mersea, near Meet...

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Sunday, 27 January 2008

REEVESHALL RAMBLE

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Had to call into Maydays Farm on the north side of the Island on Sunday 27th, after which I stretched the legs along the length of the Reeve...

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BUILDING SITE BIRDING

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This is Adrian Kettle's close-up photo of the black redstart that was watched by several local birders on 26th Saturday on the edge of ...

Friday, 25 January 2008

HANGING AND QUARTERING

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Masses of geese came raining out of the sky when I walked along the Strood seawall on Friday 25th. On a rather windy day, it was just the th...

Thursday, 24 January 2008

THE WETTER, THE BETTER

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Recent rains have left large pools of water in the fields. A walk to the East Mersea Point for the last hour of daylight on Thursday 24th, c...

Monday, 21 January 2008

HIGH SOCIETY

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Welcomed members on Sunday 20th, of the Colchester Natural History Society to East Mersea for their annual winter visit. Following all the u...

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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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