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 -

Friday, 25 May 2018

REGULAR CUCKOO

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The white flowers of cow parsley catch the eye in front of the bird hide at the park pond. It seems to have been a good spring for it in ...

Friday, 18 May 2018

SMART SUMMER DIVER

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A summer plumaged great northern diver was an unexpected sight for Andy Field from the Esplanade on Wednesday 16th. Mid May is quite lat...

Monday, 14 May 2018

GARDEN ORCHIDS

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Made the annual visit to the West Mersea garden of Dave Chadwick's on the Esplanade to admire the impressive display of wild green-wi...

Friday, 11 May 2018

SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE

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A colourful male linnet sat in the early evening sun near the East Mersea Oyster Fishery on Sunday 6th. The loud song of the nightin...

Sunday, 6 May 2018

MELLOW YELLOWS

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The air around Maydays Farm on a hot Saturday 6th was full of the smell of the fields of oil seed rape in flower. Quite a colourful displ...

Saturday, 5 May 2018

RARE MOTH TO PARK

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This tiny caterpillar of the nationally rare Fishers Estuarine moth was on its way on Wednesday 2nd from Colchester Zoo to the introducti...

Friday, 4 May 2018

BLUEBELL BLOOM

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Small clumps of bluebells are in full flower at the moment, the best display at the country park is under the single oak tree not far fro...

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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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