NOTE THAT THIS AREA IS ON AN ACTIVE M.O.D WEAPONS SITE AND IS ONLY USUALLY OPEN AT WEEKENDS AND BANK HOLIDAYS

Directions

Follow signs for Gt. Wakering from A127, proceed to the bottom of Wakering High Street until you get to a mini-roundabout by the church, take the right exit and take the immediate left marked New Road. Follow this road down to the MOD security check point and take the road marked 'MOD road open to public'. Drive on this road for about two miles until you get to the sea wall.

Walks

The left hand walk can go as far as you want the walk to last. The best stops on this walk are; Wakering Corner where, as the tide comes in, good numbers of waders will be seen close in retreating before the sea. Foulness Island Bridge where there is a sewerage works that attracts flocks of Starling and Finches and, finally, Potton Island Bridge which offers commanding views over Fleethead Creek which is always a good vantage point for raptors.

Species to look out for:

Bar-tailed Godwit
Barn Owl
Black-tailed Godwit
Brent Geese (in winter)
Common Sandpiper
Curlew
Dunlin
Goldfinch
Greenshank
Heron
Hen Harrier (in winter)
Knot
Little Egret
Little Owl
Marsh Harrier
Meadow Pipit
Merlin
Oystercatcher
Meadow Pipit
Redshank
Reed Bunting
Shelduck (in winter)
Shore Lark (in winter)
Short Eared Owl
Snow Bunting (in winter)
Sparrowhawk
Stonechat
Whinchat