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, 6 August 2020

STROOD GODWITS

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There was a nice variety of waders along the Strood Channel on a hot Thursday 6th with at least fifty black-tailed godwits still sporting...

Friday, 31 July 2020

JULY MOTHS

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Several interesting moths were trapped in the Firs Chase back garden during ten nights in the second half of July. Numbers recorded seemed...

Thursday, 30 July 2020

SWALLOW FAMILY

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A family of swallows including this juvenile, perched on wires beside the Feldy View field on Thursday 30th. The swallow family with...

Saturday, 25 July 2020

SEA SWALLOWS

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Five common terns, also known as sea swallows, were feeding along the Strood Channel on Thursday 23rd. This particular common tern s...

Monday, 20 July 2020

PEA FIELD ACTIVITY

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A male yellowhammer was perched on a bush near the seawall at Maydays farm on Sunday 19th. There was a variety of small birds flitting ab...

Thursday, 16 July 2020

SINGING SKYLARKS

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A handful of skylarks were singing over the fields alongside the Strood channel on Tuesday 14th. Flying low over the houses by Whittaker...

Saturday, 11 July 2020

SEAWALL LINNETS

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A male linnet perched on a bush to sing near the Firs Chase caravan park on Friday 10th. Up to ten linnets have been seen along the Stro...

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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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