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 -

Friday, 29 January 2010

ARCTIC WIND

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The water levels around the park continue to creep up following more rain in recent days. The water in the dyke pictured above, was spilling...

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

WHISTLING WIGEON

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There was a cold easterly wind to contend with along the East Mersea seawall at the park on Tuesday 26th. The grazing fields and the dyke ar...

Monday, 25 January 2010

MAYDAYS SPOONBILL

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Martin Cock called me on Monday morning to say he was watching the spoonbill on the saltmarsh by Maydays Farm. Having the day off work, th...

Sunday, 24 January 2010

THE BRANT'S BACK

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Had an hour's walk on a dull morning on Saturday 23rd by the Strood Channel, pictured above. There was still a chill in the air and the ...

Friday, 22 January 2010

FLOCKS OVER THE FIELDS

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The very wet grazing fields at the country park have been popular with good numbers of waders and wildfowl in the last few days. There seeme...

Sunday, 17 January 2010

WADING AROUND

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Good numbers of waders and wildfowl were to be seen on the very wet fields at the park on Sunday 17th. The picture above shows some of the 2...

Saturday, 16 January 2010

SNOW ON THE GO

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The snow has just about disappeared from the park and in the space of 24 hours, even this snow in field by the pond in the picture above, wa...

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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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