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, 2 March 2015

PIED BLACKY BACK

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It was nice to see this old friend, the pied blackbird back in the Firs Chase garden in West Mersea on Sunday 1st. It nested in our garde...

BUMPING INTO BRANTS

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Managed to see black brant geese on each of the last three days in three different locations on the Island - involving potentially three ...

Saturday, 28 February 2015

SLITHERING INTO SPRING

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The weather has warmed up enough this week for the first adder to emerge from hibernation at the country park on Friday 27th. It was bas...

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

SANDERLING IN THE SURF

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Thirty sanderling were on the beach at the Point at high tide, this one scurrying along the foaming edge of the waves late on Monday 23rd...

Friday, 20 February 2015

DAWN SONGSTER

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The song thrushes are in full song around the Island at the moment. This one was singing in my Firs Chase garden just after daybreak ear...

Monday, 16 February 2015

GODWITS AND GEESE

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Our old friend the perma-tanned bar-tailed godwit was on show again on the edge of the saltings near the Dabchicks Sailing Club at West ...

Sunday, 15 February 2015

RAPTOR WATCH

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It had been quite mild during Sunday 15th when the sun was out. However towards the end of the afternoon it turned cold again when the mur...

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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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