Location : Blakeney GM

Time : 11:30 to 11:30

Conditions : Fair cold easterly.

1 Lesser Whitethroat (Heard only.) ,

1 Marsh Harrier (Having a brief tussle with a buzzard ! ) ,

[Mick Roe]

Location : Cley 10Km Square

Time : 06:00 to 09:00

Conditions : Visited Kelling Heath, Iron Road, East Bank and Beach Road CP.

1 Garden Warbler (Kelling Heath CP) ,

1 Yellow Wagtail (Flew over Iron Road) ,

1 Common Sandpiper (Swan Lake) ,

1 Bittern (Heard booming several times) ,

2 Pochard (Usual pair on Dons) ,

1 Tufted Duck (Male dropped into Dons briefly then flew off) ,

1 Bearded Tit (Male and female off East bank) ,

1 Great White Egret (Yellow billed bird flew north East bank) ,

1 Reed Warbler (East bank) ,

1 Water Rail (Flew across drain near East bank CP) ,

1 Whinchat (Male on fence line east of Beach CP (found by DG)) ,

3 Wheatear (Eye field) ,

1 Whimbrel (Eye field) ,

2 Water Vole (Both swam across east side of drain off East bank) ,

[David Fell]

Location : Kelling WM

Time : 13:30 to 13:55

Conditions : Sunny and clear. Minimal bree,e

1 Lesser Whitethroat (Singing in small trees. North East corner of water meadoe) ,

[Nigel Young]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 09:00 to 15:30

Conditions : Warm, but with increasing wind from SW and getting cooler. Sunshine!!!!

3 Bearded Tit (East Bank - male collecting insects) ,

2 Pochard (Pair on Dons Pool - no action yet again) ,

2 Canada Goose (Pair on Dons Pool - one on nest) ,

1 White Stork (Bird tracked from further east and over Cley at 09:30. Circled a couple of times and off west gaining altitude. Turns out to have been a metal-ringed bird.) ,

11 British Yellow Wagtail (Stunning male in front of Daukes late AM then steady flow over 15 minutes with cattle west of Iron Road) ,

3 Common Sandpiper (Pats and 2 on Watling Water) ,

1 Wood Sandpiper (South Pool - later 2 seen on same pool by another birder) ,

60 Dunlin (50+ on Pats, 10 on Swan Lake) ,

c.25 Ruff (Pats, Simmonds, Swan Lake, Watling Water. Some males getting really spruced up.) ,

c.1 Cattle Egret (Breeding plumaged bird on Simmonds then with cattle on Keepers) ,

1 Whimbrel (West over Simmonds, calling) ,

1 Whinchat (Stunning male at northern end of Simmonds) ,

1 Wheatear (Male on Simmonds) ,

2 Garganey (Pair on Watling Water) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 08:30 to 12:00

4 Bearded Tit (Don's Pool) ,

[John Mears]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 08:30 to 12:00

Conditions : sunshine with a breeze

1 White Stork (Seen from dons pool along East bank) ,

3 Marsh Harrier (seen along East bank) ,

[John Mears]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 11:45 to 13:00

Conditions : Clear sunshine and a slight breeze

4 Bearded Tit (Don's Pool) ,

[John Mears]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 10:30 to 14:45

Conditions : Sun, lighter, warmer wind than recently.

1 Peregrine ,

3 Yellow Wagtail (Iron Road) ,

1 Snipe (Whitwell) ,

1 Wheatear (Eye Field) ,

1 Cattle Egret (Keeper's Marsh) ,

19 Ruff (Across reserve.) ,

27 Black-tailed Godwit (Serpentine and Pat's Pool.) ,

1 Spoonbill (Whitwell) ,

5 Bearded Tit (East Bank: 1 seen by us, others reported 5.) ,

1 Whitethroat (Visitor Centre car park) ,

[Kath & Mick Claydon]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 08:45 to 09:10

Conditions : Warm, little or no wind, clearish skies

3 Swift (Initially two then 3 over scrapes) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:40 to 08:55

Conditions : 3-10C, NNW veering NNE f2, sun, some early mist patches. Visited Snipe's, Bishop's, Skirts, E Bank & Arnold's

2 Pintail (pr Arnold's) ,

1 Pochard (m Don's Pool) ,

1 Little Grebe (Don's Pool) ,

7 Grey Heron ,

3 Little Egret ,

1 Bittern (heard booming) ,

24 Cormorant (Arnold's) ,

16 Oystercatcher ,

41 Avocet ,

8 Curlew ,

47 Black-tailed Godwit ,

14 Bar-tailed Godwit (Arnold's) ,

3 Snipe ,

9 Redshank ,

4 Ruff (3 ad m, 1 fw m) ,

6 Little Ringed Plover (Pat's) ,

4 Ringed Plover (3 Arnold's, 1 Brackish shingle) ,

1 Green Sandpiper (Pat's) ,

1 Wheatear (Arnold's) ,

1 Marsh Harrier (fem) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]