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 -

Monday, 31 August 2009

BROWN AND BARREN

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This area of "grass" at the country park has been getting browner and more barren through August. The area took its final pounding...

MIGRANT HEDGE

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This hedge near the country park entrance, pictured above, often has one or two migrant birds feeding along it and on Saturday 29th three s...

Friday, 28 August 2009

DODGING THE STORM CLOUDS

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The fine weather of recent days gave way during Friday 28th to strong winds, increasing cloud with the odd shower, culminating in thunder an...

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Wednesday, 26 August 2009

SMALL BIRD ACTIVITY

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It looks like someone has sown an old button onto the face of this canary-shouldered thorn moth, when it was found in the moth trap on the ...

Monday, 24 August 2009

WARM AND MUGGY

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The Mersea Quarters had returned to some sort of peace on Monday 24th after a hot weekend coincided with the local sailing regatta. Although...

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Sunday, 23 August 2009

FLICKERING COMBINATION

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Having been casually checking the outside walls and woodwork on the park buildings over the last fortnight, finally found this red underwing...

Saturday, 22 August 2009

SPOTTED FLYCATCHER

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Various dragonflies such as this ruddy darter have been seen around the park over the last few days. The bright red abdomen of the males ma...

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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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