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 -

Saturday, 10 August 2019

WILLOW EMERALD REAPPEARANCE

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A Willow emerald damselfly made a surprise appearance in the Firs Chase garden on a blustery Friday 16th. It found a sheltered corner of...

Wednesday, 7 August 2019

WALL BROWN

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A Wall Brown butterfly made a surprise appearance along the Maydays farm seawall on Sunday 4th - the first sighting on the Island for jus...

Saturday, 3 August 2019

PLOVER CHICKS

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The three young ringed plover chicks were seen feeding on some mud between the seawall and the beach near the old fort at East Mersea Poi...

Wednesday, 31 July 2019

GARDEN WILDLIFE

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There has been a nice variety of interesting wildlife in the Firs Chase garden during the month of July. A brown argus was seen on three d...

Friday, 26 July 2019

RETURNING REDSHANK

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Numbers of redshank have been gradually building up in the last few weeks around the Island, as birds return from their breeding grounds. ...

Sunday, 21 July 2019

PYEFLEET SEALS

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A common seal was resting on the pontoon in the Pyefleet Channel on Sunday 21st, with a second common seal resting on the saltmarsh furt...

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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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