CBC Wildlife News

Records submitted, most recent first. Amber indicates scarce, bold red indicates a description is needed for verification at county or national level, green indicates category D (reasonable doubt of natural occurrence) or category E (escapes or non-sustaining introductions).

 

Mon 14 July 2025

Cley Marshes
13:45 to 16:00
Warm, humid and quite oppressive despite wind from SW. Dry.

2 Wood Sandpiper (Swan Lake) ,

4 Green Sandpiper (1 Swan Lake, 3 Pats) ,

2 Golden Plover (Swan Lake moulting out of BP) ,

1 Red Kite (Following grass cutting east of Salthouse Beach Road) ,

3 Buzzard (Salthouse and 2 over North Foreland) ,

2 Kestrel (Adult and juvenile male over reserve) ,

1 Hobby (Adult in primary moult thrashing through waders and hirundines) ,

11 Ruff (Scruffs in moult on Pats) ,

12 Little Ringed Plover (Upto 8 juveniles on Pats with adults) ,

15 Black-tailed Godwit (Icelandic) (Pats) ,

2 British Yellow Wagtail (Female and Juv on Pats) ,

c.30 Pied Wagtail (Mainly Pats) ,

9 Spoonbill (Simmonds) ,

8 Cattle Egret (Mainly with cattle South Scrape field but also some transit to woods and scrapes) ,

3 Marsh Harrier (Juveniles across reserve) ,

1 Bittern (Flw from west across reserve and probably Popes Marsh area) ,

[David Griffiths]

Mon 14 July 2025

Cley Marshes
06:40 to 08:55
18-23C, SE f2, cloud, Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank and Arnold's. Pope'sPool still dry but water on Serpentine.

2 Little Grebe (heard, Snipe's & Don's) ,

2 Spoonbill (ad + juv, Pat's briefly) ,

3 Grey Heron (incl. 2 juvs on Arnold's) ,

20 Little Egret (incl. 8 N Foreland & 8 on Brackish) ,

1 Cattle Egret ,

2 Cormorant ,

1 Kestrel (sitting on N Screen) ,

4 Oystercatcher ,

5 Avocet (Pat's, none on Serpentine or Arnold's) ,

4 Curlew ,

7 Black-tailed Godwit (Pat's) ,

1 Greenshank (Arnold's) ,

14 Redshank ,

1 Green Sandpiper (Pat's) ,

1 Wood Sandpiper (Pat's) ,

9 Ruff (8 adm, 1 adf, Pat's) ,

1 Curlew Sandpiper (ad, Pat's) ,

3 Knot (2sp, Arnold's) ,

5 Dunlin (Arnold's) ,

7 Little Ringed Plover (Pat's) ,

4 Ringed Plover (4 ads + 2 sm chicks, Arnold's) ,

13 Lapwing (plus 2 chicks) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Sun 13 July 2025

Wiveton
10:00 to 11:00
Broken cloud, warm, little wind.

2 Reed Warbler (River Glaven, both feeding young in the nest.) ,

[Gerard Sabran]

Sun 13 July 2025

Cley Marshes
09:30 to 11:00

1 Spotted Redshank (Mostly distant, but viewable for a long time. Needed Gerry for some decent shots though.) ,

[John Fairey]

Sun 13 July 2025

Cley Marshes
08:00 to 16:00
Everything from bright sunshine to cloud to rain to sunshine. Wind from NE.

7 Reed Warbler (Juveniles across reserve) ,

5 Sedge Warbler (Juveniles) ,

5 Bearded Tit (Juveniles) ,

3 Raven (East over North Foreland) ,

36 Cattle Egret (Max count PM) ,

9 Spoonbill (Max count PM) ,

1 Peregrine (Adult male perched up on beach fence PM) ,

14 Ruff (Pats) ,

1 Knot (SP bird moulting out, Pats PM) ,

2 Greenshank (Pats PM) ,

5 Wood Sandpiper (Pats PM) ,

11 Green Sandpiper (Pats PM) ,

1 Dunlin (SP on Pats briefly PM) ,

2 Chinese Water Deer (Female and fawn on Whitwell AM) ,

1 Spotted Redshank (Cracking SP bird all day on Pats) ,

[David Griffiths]

Sat 12 July 2025

Cley Marshes
09:20 to 16:00
Cool morning, overcast with wind from NE, warming up PM but still with the cooling wind.

75 Common Scoter (West including one flock of 45) ,

[David Griffiths]

Sat 12 July 2025

Cley Marshes
09:20 to 16:00
Cool morning, overcast with wind from NE, warming up PM but still with the cooling wind.

75 Common Scoter (West including one flock of 45) ,

c.2 Common Tern (west) ,

15 Sandwich Tern (west) ,

9 Whimbrel (west - 1, 1, 2, 5) ,

1 Teal (west) ,

11 Ruff (10 males and one female on Pats) ,

6 Little Ringed Plover (Pats, inc some well grown juvs) ,

150 Black-headed Gull (Reserve wide including some nice juveniles, some moving rapidly to 1W) ,

c.4 Marsh Harrier (Female and 3 juvs - the latter now terrorising the scrapes) ,

1 Water Rail (In front of Bishops playing hide and seek) ,

2 Wood Sandpiper (Swan Lake) ,

6 Green Sandpiper (Pats) ,

3 Great White Egret (From the west into Big Pool) ,

34 Cattle Egret (Max at any one time including 28 in from the west - 11 juveniles) ,

9 Spoonbill (Simmonds - 4 adults, 3 t-spoons and 2 2CY birds) ,

25 Little Egret (Reserve wide) ,

c.4 Grey Heron (On reserve) ,

2 Gannet (east) ,

1 Caspian Gull (Near adult on Simmonds PM) ,

[David Griffiths]

Fri 11 July 2025

Cley Village
18:59 to 18:59
Warm, light easterly, cloudless.

1 Marsh Harrier (Typical large raptor daily flight routine, around 19:00 hrs, east to west along the tree line to the north of the village. Each evening for the last three weeks in this benign summer weather.) ,

[Gerard Sabran]

Fri 11 July 2025

Cley Marshes
08:15 to 09:45
Hot, clear skies, breeze from SW

1 British Yellow Wagtail (Juvenile on fence-line between Simmonds and Whitwell Scrapes briefly and then off north.) ,

7 Ruff (Moulting males on Pats) ,

4 Green Sandpiper (Pats) ,

1 Common Sandpiper (Pats) ,

2 Sandwich Tern (Simmonds) ,

9 Little Egret (Pats and Simmonds) ,

11 Spoonbill (Pats and Simmonds) ,

25 Cattle Egret (Simmonds, Pats and Pastures. Several juveniles amongst the adults.) ,

[David Griffiths]

Fri 11 July 2025

Cley Marshes
06:30 to 08:50
18-22C, calm, Sun. Visited Bishop', Skirts, Snipe's , E Bank & Arnold's.

4 Little Grebe (2 + 2 chicks on Snipe's, 1 Don's, 1 Skirts) ,

1 Spoonbill (ad) ,

6 Grey Heron ,

1 Great White Egret (Brackish) ,

23 Little Egret (incl. 6 in N Foreland) ,

8 Cattle Egret ,

2 Marsh Harrier (m + juv) ,

2 Coot (lge chicks, Don's) ,

7 Oystercatcher ,

9 Avocet (incl. 2 juvs) ,

22 Black-tailed Godwit ,

8 Curlew ,

30 Redshank ,

6 Green Sandpiper (Pat's) ,

1 Common Sandpiper (Serpentine then flew at 07:15) ,

11 Ruff (10 ad m, 1 ad f, Pat's) ,

10 Little Ringed Plover (Pat's) ,

3 Ringed Plover (1 beach, 2 Arnold's) ,

35 Lapwing (+ 2 small chicks) ,

1 Mediterranean Gull (Arnold's) ,

2 Sandwich Tern (Arnold's) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

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