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, 29 August 2016

PASSAGE WHINCHATS

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Four whinchats were perched on bushes beside the Maydays farm borrow-dyke in the shimmering heat of Monday 29th. There was plenty of sun...

Friday, 26 August 2016

ROADSIDE PARTRIDGES

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Three grey partridges were in the field by Chapmans Lane early on Thursday 25th, looking a bit tatty as they go through their summer mou...

Monday, 22 August 2016

PLOVER CHICKS

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The family of ringed plovers have been having a testing time recently with very high spring tides covering most of the beach near the Ea...

Saturday, 20 August 2016

AUGUST MOTHING

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Dave Grundy travelled from the Midlands to carry out some moth-trapping ahead of a couple of moth identification courses he was running l...

Wednesday, 17 August 2016

REEVESHALL MONTY

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A little bit of excitement was caused by the sighting by Martin Cock of this juvenile Montagu's harrier on Reeveshall on Sunday 14th...

Tuesday, 16 August 2016

EVENING WADER ROOST

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The main pool in the country park's grazing fields still held enough water in it on Wednesday 10th for this group of waders to roost ...

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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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