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, 31 December 2008

END OF THE YEAR

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The last two days of the year have been chilly although the sun managed to shine on the Tuesday but not on Wednesday 31st. There was another...

Monday, 29 December 2008

REWSALLS OWLS

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Visited the Rewsalls Marshes next to the Coopers Beach caravan site in East Mersea on Monday 29th. The sight of some motorbikes scrambling a...

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Sunday, 28 December 2008

STROOD STROLLS

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Managed two walks along the Strood seawall on Saturday 27th and then again on Sunday 28th. There was no mud on show on either walk, although...

Thursday, 25 December 2008

MANDARIN MARVEL

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A little bit of local excitement at the country park pond on Christmas Day when this very colourful male mandarin duck was found, on the le...

Wednesday, 24 December 2008

SLAVONIANS ON THE SEA

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Another dull and cloudy day at the country park on Xmas Eve but as usual a walk around the place was brightened up by several interesting bi...

Sunday, 21 December 2008

SHORTEST DAY

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There were good numbers of wigeon pictured above, in one of the grazing fields at the country park on Sunday 21st. When the sun came out at...

Friday, 19 December 2008

TALL ESTUARY VISITOR

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Local birdwatcher Richard Brown has kindly passed to me, one of his photos of a great northern diver that he saw earlier this week from the ...

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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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