Seen on the Colne shore!

It raises an issue already alluded to - the implication that landing is not permitted outside of the arrows and whether the erectors of the sign have the right to control landing in that location
 
The thing I find unacceptable about naturalists and conservationists is that they make their hobby into a problem for other people. They have designated evry bit of water as some sort of conservation area where no one is allowed to do anything because it may affect a worm or upset a bird.

They are taking away long held freedoms to advance their hobby. And to boot not one of them actually lies in the environment itself.
 
At the end of the week before, I went out to TG on her mooring at the end of Salcott Creek. It was near LW and that end of the Creek is magical at times. Rather than mess around in the light airs (in which TG doesn't really move very well), I sat in the cockpit with a cup of tea and just enjoyed the peace - even the Easyjet flights into Southend seemed to be routed a different way. A number of Curlews were searching over the oyster beds interspersed with Egrets; the family of Cormorants spreading their wings rather expectantly for the wind available and numerous other birds flew by or raked over the flats for worms and things. I laid down in the cockpit with the sun nicely strong but not too strong with a very thin covering of high cloud and listening to the liquid warblings of the Curlews and other calls that I did not recognise.

Suddenly silence!

The difference was dramatic. I lay there in silence for a couple of minutes and then sat up. Not a bird in sight on either side of the creek, not even a cormorant. But what had appeared on the Old Hall side were two Twitchers both armed with large cameras on tripods and those collapsible seats. I sat and watched them for about 20 minutes before they got up and went away, presumably to look elsewhere but convinced that the boats on the moorings disturbed the local birds.

Five minutes later, the Curlew's distinctive call was back!
 
tillergirl said:
At the end of the week before, I went out to TG on her mooring at the end of Salcott Creek. It was near LW and that end of the Creek is magical at times. Rather than mess around in the light airs (in which TG doesn't really move very well), I sat in the cockpit with a cup of tea and just enjoyed the peace - even the Easyjet flights into Southend seemed to be routed a different way. A number of Curlews were searching over the oyster beds interspersed with Egrets; the family of Cormorants spreading their wings rather expectantly for the wind available and numerous other birds flew by or raked over the flats for worms and things. I laid down in the cockpit with the sun nicely strong but not too strong with a very thin covering of high cloud and listening to the liquid warblings of the Curlews and other calls that I did not recognise.

Suddenly silence!

The difference was dramatic. I lay there in silence for a couple of minutes and then sat up. Not a bird in sight on either side of the creek, not even a cormorant. But what had appeared on the Old Hall side were two Twitchers both armed with large cameras on tripods and those collapsible seats. I sat and watched them for about 20 minutes before they got up and went away, presumably to look elsewhere but convinced that the boats on the moorings disturbed the local birds.

Five minutes later, the Curlew's distinctive call was back!
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I think that sums things up rather well!
 
Tomahawk said:
The thing I find unacceptable about naturalists and conservationists is that they make their hobby into a problem for other people. They have designated evry bit of water as some sort of conservation area where no one is allowed to do anything because it may affect a worm or upset a bird.

They are taking away long held freedoms to advance their hobby. And to boot not one of them actually lies in the environment itself.
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If the area in the OP is where I think it is, it is owned by the Essex Wildlife Trust, and is their land, so they can make what restrictions they like
 
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DavidofMersea said:
If the area in the OP is where I think it is, it is owned by the RSPB, and is their land, so they can make what restrictions they like
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Essex Wildlife Trust to be specific. http://www.essexwt.org.uk/reserves/colne-point

Makes interesting reading. There is a fenced off 'Little Tern breeding area' so this area must be a designated clear area where nests above the HW line are not found.
 
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