Southend's Foreshore stretches from Leigh-on-Sea to Shoeburyness. Over Eight miles of mudflats and sand and shingle are home to an incredible range of wildlife. The reserve is internationally important for migrating birds, particularly dark-bellied goose, with nearly a fifth of all those in the world coming to the Essex coast from Siberia every September. Other visitors include dunlin, teal, mallard, wigeon, ringed plover and godwits. Hundreds of them can be seen outrunning the incoming tide in vast skyward waves.
