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 -

Thursday, 31 December 2009

MERLIN MAYHEM

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The year ended with another dull and chilly day with some rain over the country park on Thursday 31st. There was a high tide late in the mor...

Wednesday, 30 December 2009

GREY AND CHILLY AT THE POINT

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Andy Field and I walked along the beach at the park to East Mersea Point on a chilly and very grey Wednesday 30th. Despite the cold north-e...

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

DULL AND DAMP DAY

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The thawing of snow and ice of recent days has left behind a saturated ground, especially on the park grazing fields, pictured above on Tues...

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

GRADUAL THAW

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There was a very sharp frost at the start of Wednesday 23rd with lots of ice around such as on the park grazing fields in the picture above....

Sunday, 20 December 2009

SNOW IN THE SUNSHINE

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Another chilly but sunny day with plenty of snow still lying around for its third day since it fell on Thursday night, as shown at the park...

Saturday, 19 December 2009

SHORELARK SURPRISE

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These two images of the shorelark were taken by Sean Nixon, who was lucky enough to visit East Mersea and kindly passed these photos to me...

Friday, 18 December 2009

GROVE UNDER SNOW

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Winter fell out of the sky through the night of Thursday 17th, carpeting Cudmore Grove with up to 10cms of snow by dawn on Friday 18th. 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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