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 -

Sunday, 11 October 2015

BRENT COMING BACK

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The brent geese are becoming a regular sight at the country park, since the first ones were seen a fortnight ago. This flock of 100 were o...

Thursday, 8 October 2015

LINNETS AND LARKS

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A flock of 25 linnets was feeding amongst the sea-blite bushes at the East Mersea Point on Sunday 4th. The birds were also flying onto th...

Monday, 5 October 2015

SQUIRREL SIGHTINGS

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Up to thirty lapwings have been feeding on the park's grazing fields in the last few days. After dark they fly onto the main part of ...

Friday, 2 October 2015

TON OF EGRETS

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The magic figure of 100 little egrets at the park roost was reached for the first time on Tuesday 29th when 110 birds were counted in the...

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

MARSHES TURNING BLUE

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There was plenty of sunshine with blue skies over the Island on Monday 28th, here even the saltmarshes along the Strood Channel turned blu...

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

GANNETS UP THE COLNE

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This immature gannet was seen heading down the river Colne from Alresford Creek direction towards Mersea Island on Thursday 17th. It was p...

Sunday, 13 September 2015

POORLY KINGFISHER

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Sad to report a kingfisher found very poorly by my wife Nolly, lying on the ground in front of the Firs Chase caravan site on Saturday 12...

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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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