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 -

Saturday, 11 October 2014

GLOBE-TROTTING GODWITS

›

High spring tides over the last few days have brought large numbers of black-tailed godwits to roost in the country park fields. Most of...

Friday, 10 October 2014

AUTUMN DOWNPOURS

›

The driest September on record now seems a distant memory following some torrential downpours recently. The car park at Cudmore Grove pic...

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

GODWIT GATHERING

›

Numbers of black-tailed godwits roosting in the country park fields appeared to have increased on Tuesday 7th. At least 300 were packed ...

Saturday, 4 October 2014

WIGEON

›

Wigeon numbers continue to increase in the park's grazing fields, here sharing the grass with the cows in the late evening sunshine. ...

Wednesday, 1 October 2014

LITTLE SKULKERS

›

For the second day running the two Cetti's warblers were skulking beside the park pond on Wednesday 1st. The two birds were first hea...

Monday, 29 September 2014

ACTIVITY BY THE HARD

›

There was plenty of activity on the water in the Mersea Quarters on Saturday 28th. Pictured above were some of the competitors taking part...

Thursday, 25 September 2014

GAGGLING GREYLAGS

›

The greylag geese flock of about 80 birds were busy feeding around the marshy margins of the pools in the grazing fields in the country ...

‹

›

Home

View web version

About Me

Dougal Urquhart: Mersea Island, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom; I was the ranger at Cudmore Grove Country Park in East Mersea between 1983 and 2018.

View my complete profile