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).

 

Tue 18 November 2025

Cley Marshes
12:00 to 16:00
Cold with light rain from around 1pm

1 Water Pipit (Pats Pool close in from Bishops Hide at 3.30pm) ,

15 Snow Bunting (End of East Bank flying both sides of path on shingle ridge) ,

8 Marsh Harrier (Many sightings but 8 seen together at 3.30pm) ,

1500 Pink-footed Goose (Many small skein’s throughout our visit ) ,

4 Snipe (All in flight ) ,

20 Black-tailed Godwit ,

[Steve Hearn]

Tue 18 November 2025

Cley Marshes
08:00 to 08:10
Very cold, some bright spells

15 Snow Bunting (Very flighty: just inland of the pill box) ,

[David Bryant]

Tue 18 November 2025

Cley Marshes
07:25 to 08:50
2-3C, SW f4, sun/cloud. Slight frost in places. Visited, Bishop's, Skirts & E Bank. Water levels very high especially on Arnold's. Very few waders.

211 Pink-footed Goose (210 E from furter W, 1 onto Pat's Pool) ,

52 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (flew E) ,

1 Pintail (Brackish) ,

7 Little Grebe ,

1 Coot (Don's Pool) ,

1 Grey Heron (Brackish) ,

1 Little Egret (flew W) ,

2 Cormorant (Pope's Pool) ,

1 Red Kite ,

4 Marsh Harrier ,

1 Avocet (Pat's) ,

7 Black-tailed Godwit (Pat's) ,

3 Redshank (1 Serpentine, 2 Brackish) ,

12 Dunlin ,

41 Lapwing ,

1 Long-tailed Tit (E Bank car park) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Tue 18 November 2025

Cley (sea)
07:15 to 08:30

16 Teal (West) ,

3 Dunlin (West) ,

1 Shelduck (West) ,

34 Ringed Plover (All west largest flock 11) ,

2 Great Crested Grebe (West) ,

5 Common Scoter (West with Teal) ,

1 Gannet (Adult east) ,

1 Red-breasted Merganser (Male west) ,

1 Eider (West) ,

1 Black-throated Diver (Close in west showing some SP) ,

[David Fell]

Mon 17 November 2025

Cley (sea)
12:45 to 14:40
Very cold, force 5 wind from NW, clear skies generally

1 Mediterranean Gull (Adult WP in gull feeding melee) ,

1 Grey Plover (Flew East) ,

2 Ringed Plover (Flew west) ,

2 Turnstone (west) ,

1 Red-throated Diver (East) ,

1 Gannet (East) ,

1 Kittiwake (Adult west) ,

2 Eider (west) ,

[David Griffiths]

Mon 17 November 2025

Kelling Heath
10:35 to 22:45
Strong wind, broken cloud.

c.1 Green Woodpecker (Heard only, calling.) ,

[Tony Pope]

Mon 17 November 2025

Kelling
10:10 to 10:35
Strong wind, broken cloud.

c.1 Redwing (Heard only, calling.) ,

c.1 Grey Wagtail (Heard only, calling.) ,

c.3 Bullfinch ,

c.50 Pink-footed Goose (Over, E.) ,

1 Great Tit ,

[Tony Pope]

Mon 17 November 2025

Kelling WM
09:50 to 10:10
Strong ind, broken cloud.

c.6 Teal ,

2 Lapwing ,

c.10 Rook ,

c.100 Starling ,

c.10 Mallard ,

1 Redshank ,

c.10 Wigeon ,

c.16 Black-headed Gull ,

1 Common Gull ,

1 Curlew ,

1 Shelduck ,

[Tony Pope]

Mon 17 November 2025

Wiveton
08:00 to 14:00
All records from private garden.

1 Raven (Very vocal bird seen to fly into pine tree) ,

1 Chiffchaff ,

1 Woodcock (Flushed from plantation) ,

1 Buzzard ,

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Heard) ,

[David Fell]

Sun 16 November 2025

Kelling WM
09:20 to 10:30

1 Great White Egret (Flew inland over vilage) ,

3 Red Kite (Between KWM and M Hill) ,

1 Marsh Harrier (Over fields) ,

8 Shoveler ,

300 Common Scoter (On sea ) ,

1 Velvet Scoter (F type. ) ,

350 Starling (Flew west in flocks of c60-80) ,

38 Curlew (In fields) ,

1 Golden Plover ,

15 Wigeon ,

3 Linnet ,

5 Skylark ,

4 Gannet (At sea) ,

[Steven Stansfield]

This screen shows all sightings from the date shown here on the left until today in reverse date sequence.  There is a limited number that show at one time so the page numbers above let you page through them.  If you want to see any earlier sightings you can do this by changing the date on the left to the earliest date you want then click on SHOW MORE.  When the screen refreshes you will need to scroll to the bottom then navigate through the pages to find what you are looking for.