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 -

Wednesday, 2 June 2021

DISPLAY OF ORCHIDS

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The colony of green-winged orchids continues to flourish in Dave Chadwick's garden on Victoria Esplanade and I was grateful to him for ...

Friday, 28 May 2021

BEACH WHEATEARS

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A pair of wheatears was a surprise find on the beach at St Peters on Thursday 27th, as it's quite a late date for them to be still pass...

Monday, 24 May 2021

LAKE-SIDE TERNS

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A pair of common terns was resting on the side-lake to the East Mersea boating lake on Monday 24th. Every so often one of the common terns ...

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

NESTING PLOVERS

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Two ringed plovers were found sitting on nests on the beach at East Mersea Point on Wednesday 19th. This presumed female pictured above was ...

Monday, 17 May 2021

SEAWALL SOAKING

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An ominous black cloud bore down on the Island on Sunday 16th bringing a deluge of rain and hail for twenty minutes or so. The morning walk ...

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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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