Location : Cley (sea)

Time : 08:30 to 09:15

Conditions : SW f4

1 Cormorant (W) ,

10 Sandwich Tern ,

5 Little Tern ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:40 to 09:15

Conditions : 10-15C, SW f4, sun/cloud. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank and shingle to N Scrape & Coastguards.

3 Spoonbill ,

3 Grey Heron ,

1 Great White Egret ,

9 Little Egret ,

4 Cormorant (Pope's Pool) ,

1 Coot (Don's Pool) ,

2 Marsh Harrier ,

1 Kestrel (m) ,

15 Oystercatcher ,

51 Avocet ,

4 Bar-tailed Godwit ,

30 Redshank ,

4 Little Ringed Plover ,

3 Ringed Plover (2 Pat's, f + 2 2 sm/med Arnold's) ,

30 Lapwing ,

2 Little Tern (pr Brackish still) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 07:45 to 10:15

Conditions : Cold, overcast then rain with strong SW wind.

29 Canada Goose (Over reserve) ,

1 Chinese Water Deer (Strolled out of the reedbed and then non-chalently over Whitwell Scrape.) ,

3 Spoonbill (At least two adults - one a parent of the lone tspoon and another out of NF. Tspoon very demanding and we watched, thoroughly entertained as it begged from the adult before the latter eventually gave up and fed the tspoon. ) ,

3 Great White Egret (At least three mobile over the reedbeds with one landing not far from Daukes Hide.) ,

3 Little Egret (Active around the Central Hides with one bird sporting quite buff plumage tones) ,

5 Cattle Egret (With cattle on Bull Marsh and in flight) ,

1 Whimbrel (West calling) ,

5 Ringed Plover (Tundra) (Brought down by the rain and not really welcomed by the resident LRPs) ,

6 Little Ringed Plover (Pats and Simmonds) ,

1 Sanderling (Pats) ,

2 Grey Heron (In flight) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:45 to 08:40

Conditions : 13-15C, S f5, Sun/cloud with drizzle starting as we left. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank (Viewing Arnold's & Brackish).

c.30 Canada Goose (flock flew E over E Bank at c.07:00 then back W at 08:22) ,

3 Spoonbill ,

3 Grey Heron ,

6 Little Egret ,

1 Cattle Egret ,

8 Cormorant ,

1 Little Grebe (only bird seenon Snipe's today) ,

1 Red Kite ,

3 Buzzard ,

2 Marsh Harrier ,

6 Oystercatcher ,

47 Avocet ,

18 Redshank ,

1 Knot (Arnold's) ,

1 Dunlin (Arnold's) ,

7 Little Ringed Plover ,

2 Ringed Plover ,

22 Lapwing ,

1 Mediterranean Gull (ad W) ,

1 Sandwich Tern (W) ,

1 Little Tern (Brackish) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:45 to 08:55

Conditions : 12-14C, W f4, mainly cloudy. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank & Arnold's.

2 Spoonbill ,

2 Grey Heron ,

1 Great White Egret (Snipe's early morning) ,

5 Little Egret ,

6 Cormorant (Pope's Pool) ,

3 Little Grebe (Snipe's) ,

2 Marsh Harrier (m+f) ,

1 Kestrel ,

9 Oystercatcher ,

40 Avocet ,

16 Redshank ,

6 Little Ringed Plover (Pat's) ,

2 Ringed Plover (Serpentine incl 1 ad with 3 sm chicks) ,

1 Little Tern (Brackish) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 14:14 to 16:30

Conditions : Warm, overcast, but strengthening SW wind.

5 Spoonbill (2 adults again with their 3 tspoons) ,

3 Great White Egret (Over main reedbed) ,

6 Cattle Egret (Busy frog-bashing - gone in less sixty seconds!) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley (sea)

Time : 11:00 to 12:30

Conditions : Warm strong SW wind

c.25 Little Tern (Going East to West ) ,

c.12 Sandwich Tern (Going East to West ) ,

4 Oystercatcher (Heading West ) ,

7 Dunlin (Heading West ) ,

c.8 Cormorant (Heading to and from Arnold's Marsh ) ,

1 Mediterranean Gull (Heading West ) ,

7 Sanderling (Heading West ) ,

[Graham Brownlow]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 12:00 to 12:01

Conditions : Hot. Sun.

6 Spoonbill (the martians have landed...) ,

[Tom Whiley]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 07:30 to 13:00

Conditions : Warm, keen wind from SW reducing through the morning. Hazy later and getting humid.

1 Quail (Singing intermittently in field just east of the VC. Had stopped just before 08:00.) ,

40 Mediterranean Gull (Flocks of 10 and 14 early on and then a trickle throughout the morning. All west.) ,

6 Little Ringed Plover (Pats and even ) ,

1 Bearded Tit (Path to Bishops Hide.) ,

7 Cetti's Warbler (Singing - skirts and East Bank.) ,

c.21 Sedge Warbler (Cley Beach road, Skirts and East bank. ) ,

11 Reed Warbler (Cley Beach road, Skirts and East bank. ) ,

7 Spoonbill (2 adults, 1 2CY and 3 tspoons on Simmonds and an adult in to wash up and collect nesting material and then off east.) ,

3 Cattle Egret (Max at one time - Cricket Marsh etc) ,

3 Great White Egret (Billy's Wash) ,

15 Little Egret (Reserve wide) ,

6 Reed Bunting (singing males - Cley Beach Road to East Bank) ,

4 Whitethroat (Skirts and VC) ,

1 Hobby (Hunting over scrapes) ,

c.4 Swallow (active around central hides) ,

4 Swift (Over reserve) ,

8 House Martin (Over reserve and collecting mud from Pats Pool) ,

3 Marsh Harrier (Over reserve - several food passes) ,

3 Velvet Scoter (East passed coastguards) ,

14 Common Scoter (west) ,

6 Gannet (Milling around distantly) ,

2 Fulmar (west) ,

14 Dunlin (west) ,

1 Common Tern (west) ,

20 Sandwich Tern (Fishing offshore and then back west) ,

25 Little Tern (Offshore fishing and back west) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 11:26 to 13:26

Conditions : Wind SW very humid

1 Whitethroat (Along path to East Bank ) ,

6 Spoonbill (5 On Simmonds and 1 on Whitwell ) ,

[Graham Brownlow]