Once again Autumn and Winter are here and so are most of the winter migrants such as the Brent Geese, large flocks of which can be seen in the backwaters and surrounding areas, this is a small dark goose roughly the same size As a Mallard, a large flock are normally to be found on the grazing marshes at the back of the Naze.

Numbers of Waders are also on the increase with sizable flocks of Golden plover to be found on the farmland surrounding the Backwater, another Wader with large flocks in the area is the Oystercatcher with large flocks to be found on the beach towards Stone Point and on the Beach at the back end of Horsey island.

Little Egrets also found here all year round and most days in Winter you can normally see one or two in the Walton channel or even the old boating lake.

The Avocet is another bird that over recent years has become a common sight at the Naze, and in fact breeds in the backwaters in good numbers every year, most of the Avocets breed on Horsey Island , but in Winter we have a much larger population of up to 600 birds most of these are to be found in two flocks one in  the Kirby wade and one in Hamford water.

One very special species to look out for is the odd over wintering Hen  Harrier which can sometimes be seen hunting around the seawalls in Winter.

The other species to listen out for if you are walking around the seawall is the increasingly scarce Skylark, we still have good numbers of this species at the Naze Mostly out on the salt marsh, so they are susceptible to flooding.