The Toosey Trail #4 - Twitching Traditional Cache
The Toosey Trail #4 - Twitching
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Carry on through the gate and follow the footpath.
This 74 acre reserve is one of the best surviving coastal grazing
marshes in Essex, consisting mainly of low lying hummocky
grassland, split up by dykes and fleets. The fleets and other
natural depressions in the grassland are evidence of former creeks
and saltmarsh before the seawall was built. A narrow fringe of
saltmarsh outside the seawall widens into a large block where Flag
and St Osyth creeks meet. The nature reserve is grazed at certain
times of the year. Designation: Site of Special Scientific Interest
Specially Protected Area What to look for: The grassland contains
much Reed, Sedge, Glaucous Bulrush and Sea Clubrush, and a wide
variety of other plants including Spiny Restharrow and Spring
Whitlow-Grass. Among the plants in the dykes and fleets are Great
Water-Dock, Lesser Water-Parsnip, Tufted Forget-Me-Not, Marsh
Bedstraw and brackish Water-Crowfoot. In places on the saltmarsh
are Sea Wormwood and some Golden Samphire, as well as the more
usual saltmarsh plants. A number of birds can be seen including
Reed Warblers, Lapwing, Skylarks and Reed Buntings all of whom
breed on the nature reserve. In winter Brent Geese graze among
hundreds of wildfowl along with small flocks of Curlews. Little
Egrets and Marsh Harriers are also frequent visitors. Access
Accessible at al times. Sometimes the public path is impassable
during high tides at or near the Quay. To prevent disturbance to
wildlife and grazing stock, please keep to the public footpath and
the paths to the hide and do not walk on the seawall. Dogs must be
kept on a lead near livestock and always under close control.
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