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, 22 June 2012

SWANS GIVE UP

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The wind blew strong across the park pond on Friday 22nd accompanied at times with some heavy bursts of rain. The main noteworthy...

Sunday, 17 June 2012

MAKING THE MOST OF THE SUNSHINE

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An improvement in the weather on Sunday 17th was good for the insects around the country park like the azure damselflies , two pictured a...

Thursday, 14 June 2012

THRILL OF THE CHASE

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The sunshine on Thursday 14th brought this female broad-bodied chaser along with a second female, out at the country park. Both were keep...

Monday, 11 June 2012

DREARY AND DRIZZLY

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There was no let up in the drizzle during Monday 11th, varying between light drizzle and heavy drizzle at various times. My wife Nolly an...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

EAGER CHICK

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This little blue tit chick was a bit eager to leave the nest in the store room in the country park's toilet block. Three times durin...

Monday, 4 June 2012

DAY FOR WOOLLIES

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There were only Reeveshall sheep for company during an hours walk along the Pyefleet seawall in the early evening of Monday 4th. Despite...

Friday, 1 June 2012

CAPTIVE REARED TIGER

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Over the Easter Holidays I was handed a small hairy black caterpillar by young Phoenix Dence who was staying with her grandparents at 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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