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, 10 July 2014

MAYDAYS MOTHING

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Mothing enthusiast Chris Williams visited Mersea from his land-locked county of Shropshire to look for some of the typical coastal species...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

LAVENDER BLOOM

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Plenty of warm sunshine at the start of Monday 7th for the walk along the Strood seawall. Lots of sea lavender is in bloom on many areas ...

Sunday, 6 July 2014

KESTREL CHICKS EMERGE

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Back in circulation again after a fortnight across the Channel - that's the English one not just the Strood Channel! Trying to catch u...

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

EVENING JANGLERS

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A couple of corn buntings were singing their jangling song from roadside wires beside Chapmans Lane and Dawes Lane in the evening sun on ...

Friday, 13 June 2014

AVOCET FLOCK

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A small group of avocets have taken up residence recently on the saltmarsh lagoon near the East Mersea Point. These two avocet photos wer...

Monday, 9 June 2014

HARRIERS OUT HUNTING

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This male marsh harrier was one of two males and a female seen hunting over the fields between Meeting Lane and Shop Lane on Monday 9th...

Sunday, 8 June 2014

AVOCETS ENJOY THE SUN

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There was a small group of eleven avocets on the saltmarsh lagoon by the East Mersea Point on Saturday 7th. Pictured above is one of 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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