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 -

Saturday, 10 December 2022

SUNNY AND STILL STROOD

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Perfect winter morning for a walk along the Strood seawall on Saturday 10th with sunny and still conditions. Two of the sixty avocets were ...

Wednesday, 7 December 2022

REWSALLS MARSHES

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A nice variety of waders were roosting on the side lake at Rewsalls marshes during the high tide on Wednesday 7th. On one of the mud spits w...

Monday, 5 December 2022

HAWK-EYES

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A nicely patterned male sparrowhawk was giving me the stare as it perched for several minutes on a fence-post along the front of the Firs Ca...

Friday, 2 December 2022

SCUTTLING BUNTINGS

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Three snow buntings were found on Friday 2nd feeding on the beach on the East Mersea Point. They scuttled about on the shingle like mice an...

Saturday, 26 November 2022

STROOD WADERS

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There was a good showing of various wader species along the Strood channel on Saturday 26th such as this grey plover which looked like it h...

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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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