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 -

Tuesday, 31 March 2020

STROOD GODWIT

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This colour-ringed black-tailed godwit BB-RGf was photographed by Andy Field on Monday 30th, as it fed along the Strood Channel with 19 ot...

Friday, 27 March 2020

SQUIRREL ACTION

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After a quiet start to the year for red squirrel visits to the Firs Chase garden with hardly any sightings for about six weeks, there are...

Thursday, 26 March 2020

SPRING DRUMMER

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The male great spotted woodpecker has been drumming from the tree-tops in Firs Chase over recent days. This individual pictured in a tall...

Sunday, 22 March 2020

GARDEN CHIFFCHAFFS

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Two chiffchaffs were photographed by Michael Thorley in his East Mersea garden near Meeting Lane on Friday 20th. A chiffchaff was also se...

Monday, 16 March 2020

GARDEN COMMA

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The first comma butterfly of the year in the Firs Chase garden was sunning itself on a window-sill on Monday 16th. The resident over-wint...

Wednesday, 11 March 2020

BASKING ADDER

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This male adder was basking in the sunshine at the country park on Wednesday 11th. It stayed tightly coiled up at the base of a bramble...

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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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