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 -

Monday, 5 August 2013

GARDEN DRAGONS

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A small number of dragonflies have come into the Firs Chase garden recently to feed on the various insect life. This migrant hawker pict...

Sunday, 4 August 2013

MORE FROM MOTH NIGHT

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Mersea wildlife enthusiast Charles Williams attended the recent mothing night at the park on 23rd July and took a number of photos of the...

Saturday, 3 August 2013

PAINTED LADY INFLUX

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There appears to have been an influx of painted ladies within the last couple of days, locally and elsewhere in southern England. Three ...

Thursday, 1 August 2013

GINGERY GODWITS

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Many of the black-tailed godwits around the Island are still sporting their gingery breeding plumage like this one Andy Field photograph...

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

POSING COMMA

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At least a handful of comma butterflies have been flying around the country park in recent days. This one pictured above on Sunday...

Saturday, 27 July 2013

CARROT CARPET

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There's a good display of flowering wild carrot this summer along the seawall towards the East Mersea Point. There's normally a ...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

MUGGY FOR MOTHS

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Muggy conditions on the night of Tuesday 23rd was perfect for the annual visit by members of the Essex Moth Group to the country park. A...

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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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