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 -

Saturday, 21 November 2009

FINCH FLOCKS

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There was a lot of bird activity around the hedgerows and bushes near the park pond for a change on Saturday 21st. Sitting in the bird hide ...

Friday, 20 November 2009

SEARCHING FOR SNOWIES

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Walked to East Mersea Point, pictured above, on a blustery Friday 20th with a few spits of rain in the wind. It was worth the walk as the sm...

Sunday, 15 November 2009

DUSK BY THE STROOD

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It was better weather on Sunday 15th than the wind and rain of the previous two days. Alongside the Strood Channel pictured above at dusk, a...

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Saturday, 14 November 2009

WET, WILD AND WINDY

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This was the best place to be on Friday 13th, pictured above is the view from inside the hide at the park while sheltering from another torr...

Thursday, 12 November 2009

AVOCET FLOCK

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This distant group of avocets were waiting for the tide to recede from the East Mersea Point on a sunny Thursday 12th morning. When the fl...

END OF CRICKET SEASON

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It was sunny enough on Monday 9th for this dark bush cricket pictured above, to be basking on a wooden post at the country park. Although ...

Sunday, 8 November 2009

FLASH OF BLUE

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There were no blue skies on Sunday 8th and it stayed grey all day. The only bit of blue that Andy Field and I found on our walk around the p...

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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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