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, 28 September 2021

HUNTING HAWK

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A sparrowhawk flew around the trees behind the country park pond before landing high up in a willow tree on Monday 27th. After surveying t...

Saturday, 25 September 2021

CALLING CHIFFCHAFFS

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There was an influx of chiffchaffs into the Feldy View cemetery on Friday 24th with at least ten birds doing lots of calling as they fed wi...

Sunday, 19 September 2021

DOUBLE OSPREY SHOW

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Two ospreys were on show along the Pyefleet Channel on Sunday 19th. This bird flew slowly down the channel, circling over the water as it l...

Thursday, 16 September 2021

REWSALLS MARSHES

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At the lake and the Rewsalls marshes on Thursday 16th for the high tide roost were a common sandpiper , 200 golden plover , and 20 little eg...

Sunday, 12 September 2021

BUZZARD PASSAGE

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Common buzzards were on the move over Mersea Island during Sunday 12th with at least forty birds seen. The first group seen was above the M...

Tuesday, 7 September 2021

PYEFLEET OSPREY

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The osprey that has been frequenting the Colne estuary in recent days, was photographed by Richard Brown when he visited the Langenhoe rang...

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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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