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, 26 April 2013

TAME TURNSTONES

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This tame group of turnstones were enjoying the sunshine whilst roosting on the side of the Rewsalls seawall at high tide on Friday 26th...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

VIPER VICTOR

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After several weeks of lying around at the park, some of the adders were getting down to some serious business during a sunny Wednesday ...

Sunday, 21 April 2013

POSING PEACOCK

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Late morning was the warmest part of Sunday 21st with plenty of sunshine but before a chilly wind started to blow across the park in the ...

Thursday, 18 April 2013

NEW HOME

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This small grass-snake was released into the country park on Thursday 18th, having been brought from a garden in Empress Avenue, West Me...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013

CRANE CHASE

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Glyn Evans and Alec Selley were very surprised and thrilled to see two common cranes, a rare sight for Mersea, flying off Langenhoe mars...

Monday, 15 April 2013

BUTTERFLIES EMERGE

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More sunshine on Monday 15th brought more butterflies out into the warmth such as this comma into the garden in Firs Chase, West Mersea....

Saturday, 13 April 2013

FIRECRESTS FOUND

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Andy Field's visit to the Rewsalls marshes on Saturday 13th was rewarded with the discovery of a little gem of a firecrest close to t...

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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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