Welcome to Cley Bird Club

The Cley Bird Club (CBC) exists to bring together everybody who has an interest in the Birds of the Cley area in North Norfolk, UK.

As a visitor to this site you are free to view much of the content, but if you wish to submit your bird sightings or upload photos you must log in. If you have not yet registered, please do so, it is free and only requires you to give us your name and email address. This enables us to contact you if there is a query with your sightings or someone wishes to use one of your photos.

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About The Club

The Cley Bird Club was founded in 1986 and now has over 450 households as members. It aims to bring together people who enjoy birding in the Cley Square.

Through this website and its regular newsletter, which is produced 3 times a year, it keeps local and visiting members up to date with birding issues and what is being seen in The Square. Indoor meetings are held at Cley during the winter months and, in recent years, a Big Bird Day has been held in January to count birds in the Square.

Membership

We welcome new members, and membership of Cley Bird Club is only £4 per year per household. For this you will get full access to the Cley Bird Club website including all articles, the Forum and access to three newsletters in the current year as well as previous ones back to November 2011. These can either be read online or downloaded and then printed.

For an extra £5 per year you can receive professionally printed copies of the newsletter delivered directly to your door. Whenever in the year this application is made the member will receive 3 paper newsletters for that year.

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Recent Highlights

Water Rail photographed from Bishop Hide (David Tipling)

A smart looking American Golden Plover photographed by David Griffiths

Glossy Ibis photographed by Tom Whiley

Hobby by Gerard Sabran

The long staying Long-billed Dowitcher departed in spring before returning a few weeks later (David Griffiths)

A returning Spotted Redshank still in breeding plumage photographed by Richard Price

Turtle Dove by Gerard Sabran

A Wood Sandpiper by David Griffiths

(Please do remember to upload your photographs!)

Latest News

Notice of AGM

Thursday 21st November sees our latest evening event, a talk on Saving the World’s Seabirds by Richard Phillips, an expert on bird populations at sea. This promises to be a fascinating talk in its own right (see details here), but it will also be preceded by our Annual General Meeting. Please do come along to […]

We’ve been under attack

Some of our website visitors may have noticed some unusual topics in our Forums lately. We’ve suffered the unwanted attentions of some spammers, mainly from China and Nigeria. The Chinese posts we’ve no idea on the subject, as we can’t read Hanzi characters, but the Nigerian material was somewhat sinister, involving cult brotherhoods. It seems […]

Please keep photo sizes below 1.5MB

We have had a few problems recently with people being locked out of the website which was caused by trying to add over-large photos. Please try to reduce the size of your photos down to a max of 1.5MB each.

Species	Count	Location	Last Reported
Little Gull	c.3	Cley (sea)	03/11/2024
Long-billed Dowitcher	1	Cley Marshes	06/11/2024
Velvet Scoter	5	Cley Marshes	06/11/2024
Pale-bellied Brent Goose	2	Cley Marshes	06/11/2024
Great White Egret	1	Cley Marshes	06/11/2024