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 -

Thursday, 15 November 2018

MUNTJAC IN MEADOWS

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A muntjac deer wandered along the back of the park's grazing meadows on a sunny mid-morning on Wednesday 14th. After a few minutes br...

Saturday, 10 November 2018

PARK BUZZARD

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A common buzzard perched briefly on the kestrel's oak tree at the back of the park's grazing fields on Saturday 10th. It has beco...

Thursday, 8 November 2018

WALDEGRAVES WOODPECKERS

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Two green woodpeckers were feeding in a field beside Waldegraves caravan park on Monday 5th. A flock of fifty goldfinches were also...

Saturday, 3 November 2018

STROOD STONECHAT

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A stonechat was seen perched on a bush beside the Strood seawall on a sunny Friday 2nd. A kingfisher flew along the borrowdyke calling w...

Tuesday, 30 October 2018

CHILLY BREEZE

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A lapwing was feeding near the East Mersea Golfhouse on a chilly autumnal Monday 29th with 20 more seen flying off the nearby saltmarsh....

Monday, 22 October 2018

SUUNY ALONG STROOD

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The tide was already covering the Strood channel on Monday 22nd during a walk along the seawall on a sunny morning but with a chill in the...

Saturday, 20 October 2018

MERLIN OVER MARSHES

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A very obliging merlin was watched for over half an hour hunting over the Rewsalls Marshes at East Mersea on a sunny Saturday 20th. Most...

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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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