This winter has seen lots of rain and sadly this is
effecting the cliffs almost the entire length from just north of the café to the bottom of the Naze has stress fractures along the edge, such as the one shown lower down.

There have not been any really big falls but as you can see from the photos there have been plenty of small ones including the moderately sized fall in front of the round gun emplacements on the beach. At the bottom there is a photo showing two
detached sections just before the crest of the hill this is quite worrying as from the beach it probably doesn't look that bad but when this goes it will take a lot of material with it so be aware if you are on the beach that the cliff is very mobile at the
moment.

The northern end has taken quite a battering to,
unfortunately we didn't get down there the day we were taking the photographs as the ground was
extremely slippery and to dangerous.

This Winter has seen extensive flooding around the back of the Naze all of the fields inside the seawall have been under water for some weeks, this has been great for the wildlife, there have been large numbers of waders and wildfowl, including all the usual such as widgeon, Shoveler etc, good numbers of Brent geese, and a good number of Little Egrets and Avocet, the Avocet seem to be there more when it is high tide in the Backwaters, there has also been varying numbers of Golden Plover roosting on the back of the marsh.

Recently we were able to watch two Marsh Harriers  quartering the marsh on the lookout for food, even now when they are a resident species I still have to pinch
myself, when you think when I started birding in the early to mid sixties there was only one place you had a chance of seeing a Marsh Harrier and that was Minsmere, how times change recently we were at Strumpshaw fen watching over a dozen in the sky at once.

An interesting thing happened recently while Sue and I were walking on the Naze we suddenly heard the alarm call of a Pipit, on looking up we saw a Meadow Pipit
trying to escape from a juvenile Kestrel, the fight went on for about 5 minutes until the pipit finally managed to drop into some Brambles on the cliff edge. What amazed us even more was this drama was going on above the car park but not one other person even bothered to look up to see what all the noise was about.