Ray Island photo wins the public vote!
Essex Wildlife Trust’s Photography Competition 2018 winner announced
Essex Wildlife Trust’s Photography Competition 2018 winner announced
Skippers Island is one of the last remaining places in Essex with a true feeling of wilderness - a remote island in the Walton Backwaters, there is a sense of peacefulness, only interrupted by the…
Adjacent to the internationally protected Thames Estuary, Two Tree Island is a winter refuge for a huge variety of winter wildfowl and waders
Join volunteer John as he undertakes a winter bird survey with our Lead Reserves Ecologist at Two Tree Island nature reserve.
The most commonly encountered ray around the British Isles, it's easy to see where the thornback ray got its name from - just check out the spines on its back!
The spotted ray is one of the smallest species of skate, growing to only 80 cm.
The undulate ray has beautiful wavy patterns on its back, which helps it camouflage against the sandy seabed.
It was back in the 1950s that Ray Marsh and his wife, Rose, first came across Skippers Island, which sits in the Walton Backwaters, in north-east Essex.
Essex Wildlife Trust installs inspiring wildlife-friendly lookout
This large skate has tiny, prickly spines all over its back.
It’s easy to identify this distinctive skate from the black and yellow marbled eye spots on each wing.