Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 14:45 to 17:00

Conditions : Sunny with cloud. Becoming quite warm.

2 Pintail (Pats.) ,

2 Ringed Plover (Serpentine & Simkonds.) ,

2 Golden Plover (In flight.) ,

1118 Dunlin (68 Arnolds, 50 Simmonds.) ,

4 Snipe (At least.) ,

40 Black-tailed Godwit (At least. 20 each Arnolds & Pats/Simmonds.) ,

6 Ruff (At least.) ,

1 Stonechat (Female.) ,

1 Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Possible. Near Serpentine.) ,

1 Yellow-browed Warbler (Trees close to middle hides.) ,

[Andrew Cox]

Location : Cley (sea)

Time : 14:00 to 14:45

Conditions : Sunny, some cloud.

2 Red-throated Diver (Two sp birds on the sea, close in. Stunning.) ,

1 Gannet (Adult west.) ,

11 Brent Goose ,

12 Sandwich Tern ,

4 Common Tern (All juvs.) ,

13 Razorbill (At least. On the sea, just offshore.) ,

[Andrew Cox]

Location : Blakeney GM

Time : 09:40 to 10:55

Conditions : Sun & cloud. Becoming warmer.

5 Gannet (Along the shingle ridge, close in. All juvs.) ,

1 Marsh Harrier (Adult male.) ,

2 Water Rail (Calling near Cley Village.) ,

2 Snipe ,

6 Stonechat ,

1 Grey Wagtail (Near Cley Village.) ,

36 Bearded Tit (At least, 30-plus Cley end; six-pius Blakeney end.) ,

70 Linnet (At least.) ,

[Andrew Cox]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 17:00 to 19:00

Conditions : Sunny, becoming cooler.

4 Glossy Ibis ,

36 Dunlin (Simmonds.) ,

6 Black-tailed Godwit (Simmonds & Pats.) ,

1 Ruff (Simmonds & Pats.) ,

1 Mediterranean Gull (Adult.) ,

1 Kingfisher (Pats, in flight.) ,

1 Yellow Wagtail (Over, calling.) ,

[Andrew Cox]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 15:30 to 16:30

Conditions : Sunny with Westerly breeze

1 Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Feeding from East Bank and chased by Pied Wagtails) ,

[Paul & Jan Williams]

Location : Cley Village

Time : 14:08 to 14:20

Conditions : Dry clear air, afternoon sunshine.

1 Mistle Thrush (Gorged on yew berries, then flew high & to the south.) ,

[Gerard Sabran]

Location : Salthouse

Time : 10:20 to 10:25

Conditions : Dry and sunny, with a strengthening S.W. wind.

2 Common Gull (Resting on Beach Lane Pool.) ,

[Graham Sutton]

Location : Wiveton

Time : 08:00 to 13:00

Conditions : Wiveton Barns garden

1 Raven (Flew west calling as it went) ,

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Female) ,

1 Green Woodpecker (Flew south calling as it went) ,

1 Greenfinch (Heard) ,

1 Buzzard (Heard) ,

[David Fell]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 07:00 to 09:05

Conditions : 10-17C, S f3, Sun. Visited Bishop's,Skirts, E Bank & Arnold's. Digger working Simmond's/Whitwell banks.

9 Egyptian Goose ,

1 Pintail (Pope's Pool) ,

3 Little Egret ,

12 Cormorant ,

2 Little Grebe (Main Drain) ,

1 Water Rail (heard, E Bank) ,

23 Avocet ,

105 Black-tailed Godwit ,

5 Curlew (Arnold's) ,

29 Redshank ,

13 Ruff (incl. 3 ad m, 2 juv m) ,

130 Dunlin ,

4 Ringed Plover (Arnold's) ,

4 Grey Plover (Arnold's) ,

2 Marsh Harrier ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 17:15 to 19:05

Conditions : A warm, sunny October evening, with some cloud building at dusk when the temperature dropped quickly too.

4 Glossy Ibis (The regular quartet whizzed from west to east across the reserve before dropping down somewhere around the Serpentine) ,

3 Caspian Gull (Three 1CY in this evening, all different to last night's trio and two pretty smart individuals too) ,

1 Yellow-legged Gull (Beefy 2CY on Simmonds) ,

1 Little Gull (1CY made a couple of circuits around Simmonds but didn't drop on the scrape) ,

1 Kingfisher (Several passes up and down the dykes around the scrapes off and on all evening) ,

10 Black-tailed Godwit (Icelandic) (Still some smart, near-full juveniles on Pat's) ,

55 Dunlin (Significant increase on last night) ,

1 Ringed Plover ,

6 Ruff ,

7 Marsh Harrier (Minimum count ~ a lot of flushing from these again tonight) ,

1 Sparrowhawk (Female across Whitwell Scrape) ,

1 Barn Owl (Over the cattle pen at the bottom of Old Woman's Lane at dusk) ,

2500 Starling (Hard to estimate but easily 2500 (likely more as the murmuration headed east)) ,

[Mark Golley]