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 -

Wednesday, 2 September 2015

HIGH TIDES

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Recent high tides have been covering all the saltmarsh around the East Mersea Point, pictured here with just the sea-blite bushes showin...

Sunday, 30 August 2015

PYEFLEET SEALS

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The local group of six common seals were basking on the Maydays saltmarsh on the north side of the Island on Saturday 29th. Three of ...

Saturday, 29 August 2015

GARDEN VISITORS

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There's been a small influx of willow warblers around the Island in recent days such as two turning up in the Firs Chase garden, West...

Thursday, 27 August 2015

RUFF QUARTET

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There were now four ruff feeding on the main pool in the park's grazing fields on Thursday 27th, the new bird dropping in earlier tod...

FLY- CATCHERS

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An early evening walk at the country park on Wednesday 26th proved worth doing after a windy and wet day, when two spotted flycatchers an...

Monday, 24 August 2015

MOBBED BUZZARD

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A very tatty common buzzard appeared over the copse at the back of the park pond being mobbed by a carrion crow on Saturday 22nd. T...

Sunday, 23 August 2015

WHEATEAR WATCH

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Two wheatears were at the park on Friday 21st with this one pictured above on the seawall, while the second bird was at the Point for 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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