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, 15 April 2023

SMART SPRING WHEATEARS

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A male wheatear in its smart breeding plumage perched on a post beside the Maydays seawall on Saturday 15th. Unfortunately a closer view of...
Monday, 10 April 2023

STROOD PEREGRINE

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A peregrine flew across the Strood channel and then headed over the Strood fields towards West Mersea on a breezy and damp Easter Monday 10...
Tuesday, 4 April 2023

KITE OVER CUDMORE

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There was plenty of action at Cudmore Grove on Tuesday 4th with this red kite  first seen by Steve Entwistle and then photographed by Shaun...
Friday, 31 March 2023

WET FOR WILDFOWL

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More rain on the last day of March continued the unsettled and wet pattern for the month. The grazing fields at Cudmore Grove on Friday 31st...
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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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