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, 27 October 2021

FLOODED PADDOCK WILDFOWL

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A number of wildfowl were feeding on the flooded horse paddock in front of the East Mersea Golfhouse on Wednesday 27th including this pair o...

Sunday, 24 October 2021

EGRET EXCITEMENT

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Eight cattle egrets spent a few hours feeding among the cattle on Reeveshall on Saturday 23rd - this record shot of three of them in the di...

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

BREEZY FOR THE BLACK-TAILED

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Twenty black-tailed godwits were feeding on the last of the mud along the Strood channel before the tide covered it on Tuesday 19th. Other ...

Thursday, 14 October 2021

PINGING BEARDIES

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A nice surprise on Thursday 14th at the country park pond for Steve Entwistle and me, was a pair of bearded tits calling and perching on th...

Sunday, 10 October 2021

PYEFLEET PEREGRINES

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Two peregrines were seen along the Pyefleet Channel on Saturday 9th - one perched on a fencepost on the army ranges' seawall and a seco...

Saturday, 2 October 2021

MERLIN OVER THE MARSHES

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A merlin perched on a fence-post on Reeveshall marsh on Saturday 2nd. It then flew off to a flock of starlings that had been feeding in th...

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...

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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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