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, 28 February 2019

ELUSIVE WATER RAIL

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The elusive water rail made an appearance at the country park pond on Thursday 28th. It spent several minutes feeding amongst the cut ree...

BASKING BUTTERFLIES

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Late winter sunshine on Wednesday 27th saw this red admiral butterfly basking in the sunshine at St Peters meadow, West Mersea. Two s...

Sunday, 24 February 2019

SINGING IN THE SUNSHINE

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This stock dove was singing from the top of a neighbour's tree beside our Firs Chase garden in West Mersea on a sunny Sunday 24th....

Monday, 18 February 2019

KESTREL IN THE SUN

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This kestrel was perched in the sunshine on a telegraph pole in Haycocks Lane and was briefly snapped with the camera through the car wi...

Thursday, 14 February 2019

SINGING STOCK DOVE

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Three stock doves were perched above the path along the top of the Firs Chase caravan site on Thursday 14th. One stock dove has been hea...

Thursday, 7 February 2019

WINDY STROOD

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Sixteen avocets were feeding along the edge of the Strood channel during a windy morning of Thursday 7th. There has been a small flock o...

Saturday, 2 February 2019

BRANT WITH BRENT

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The black brant was found feeding with 500 brent geese in a field beside Cross Lane on the east side of West Mersea on Saturday 2nd. ...

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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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