The first day of February is bright sunshine and the Nature Reserve and its visitor centre draws a crowd after a permanently miserable January. The rapid flow of incoming seawater in one of the main channels from the Rother attracts a patient little egret surrounded by a handful of less patient herring gulls that are…
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Stour Estuary, Suffolk
The Stour Estuary is divided down the middle between Essex and Suffolk; on the Essex side the road runs east from Manningtree and ‘The Walls’ at Mistley to Harwich past a coastline of woodland and wetland nature reserves and, near Wrabness, the House for Essex. On the Suffolk side, it is equally wild with nothing…