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, 31 December 2020

TAKING STOCK

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A pair of stock doves was perched in a tree beside the Firs Chase Caravan Park on Thursday. Earlier in the morning a flock of about fifty ...

Friday, 25 December 2020

SEASONAL GREETINGS

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A Happy Christmas to everyone. A song thrush which recently reappeared in our Firs Chase garden after its autumn break, has started singing...

Sunday, 20 December 2020

BARNACLES, BRANTS AND BRENTS

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Three barnacle geese were seen by Andy Field on Sunday 20th flying into the country park's grazing fields at East Mersea. The geese wer...

Friday, 18 December 2020

PARK WIGEON FLOCK

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There were 1000 wigeon feeding in the country park grazing fields on Friday 18th, many of them gathered around the increasingly waterlogged...

Friday, 11 December 2020

SPARROWHAWK PAYS VISIT

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This sparrowhawk paid a visit recently to Martin Cock's garden in The Coverts, allowing him to take these two photographs of the bird. ...

Friday, 4 December 2020

FIRST SNOW-FALL

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A kestrel was perched above the path beside the Firs Chase caravan park on a chilly Friday 4th. Feldy View cemetery had a covering of snow ...

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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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