Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 11:00 to 11:00

Conditions : Clear sky, cold wind.

4 Spoonbill (Central scrapes-North Foreland) ,

3 Marsh Harrier (2 males, 1 female interacting over Keepers/Cricket reeds) ,

[Kath & Mick Claydon]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 07:45 to 09:15

Conditions : Sunny, warm out of the wind and colder as you walk along East Bank

2 Sedge Warbler (Singing from Don's Pool and Bitter Drain area) ,

2 Bittern (In flight over main reedbed. Heard calling, with one bird pursuing the other. Dropped into reedbed and seen again about 30 minutes later - possibly flushed by a female Marsh Harrier) ,

3 Whimbrel (West over East Bank calling) ,

2 Cetti's Warbler (Very vocal along East Bank) ,

3 Bearded Tit (In flight west of East Bank) ,

5 Sand Martin (Over reedbeds) ,

1 Swallow (East) ,

2 Reed Bunting (Singing males East Bank) ,

2 Marsh Harrier (Male and Female over reedbeds) ,

5 Grey Heron (Out of North Foreland) ,

2 Ruff (Serpentine) ,

2 Pintail (Brackish Lagoon) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:50 to 08:55

Conditions : 2-9C, E f2-3, Sun. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank (viewing Arnold's into sun).

27 Dark-bellied Brent Goose ,

3 Pintail (2 m 1 f, Brackish) ,

1 Pochard (drake, Catchwater Drain) ,

3 Little Grebe (2 Snipe's, 1 Dons Pool) ,

2 Spoonbill (N Foreland) ,

3 Grey Heron (N Foreland) ,

7 Little Egret (including 4 N Forland) ,

10 Cormorant (Pope's Pool) ,

1 Marsh Harrier (m ) ,

3 Coot (pr Snipe's, 1 Skirts/Don's Pool) ,

8 Oystercatcher ,

112 Avocet (2 Brackish, 5 Serpentine/Pope's Pool, rest Pat's) ,

165 Black-tailed Godwit (7 Serpentine/Arnold's. rest Pat's) ,

4 Curlew (Arnold's) ,

27 Redshank ,

1 Turnstone (Brackish) ,

31 Dunlin (Arnold's) ,

9 Little Ringed Plover (Pat's) ,

2 Ringed Plover (Arnold's) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:50 to 09:25

Conditions : 6-11C, ENE f3-4, sun (3C by Glaven). Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank & Arnold's.

36 Dark-bellied Brent Goose ,

2 Egyptian Goose (Pat's) ,

6 Pintail (Brackish) ,

2 Pochard (Catchwater Drain E of E Bank) ,

2 Little Grebe (1 Don's Pool, 1 Snipe's) ,

3 Grey Heron ,

3 Little Egret ,

8 Cormorant ,

1 Marsh Harrier (male) ,

3 Coot (2 Snipe's, 1 Don's Pool) ,

9 Oystercatcher ,

117 Avocet ,

174 Black-tailed Godwit (1 Serpentine, rest Pat's) ,

6 Curlew ,

60 Redshank ,

3 Ruff (2 ad m, 1 ad f) ,

10 Turnstone (Arnold's/Brackish) ,

47 Dunlin ,

10 Little Ringed Plover (8 Pat's, 2 Serpentine) ,

1 Ringed Plover (Arnold's) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 11:00 to 12:30

Conditions : Sun. 12C. Cold NE wind

33 Curlew (3 Po3, 13 Po2, 17 Po1) ,

4 Avocet (Watling Water) ,

6 Ruff (Swan Lake) ,

1 Stonechat (Eye Field E of overspill car park) ,

2 Marsh Harrier (Cricket Marsh) ,

2 Swallow (Iron Road) ,

[Kath & Mick Claydon]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 08:00 to 15:00

Conditions : Sunny and fine but still that cold wind from East/North East.

8 Skylark (Eye Field - fine song flighting) ,

3 Sanderling (East along shoreline) ,

11 Gannet (East) ,

6 Common Scoter (Off CG) ,

3 Red-throated Diver (Sea) ,

2 Spoonbill (Adult on Serpentine, 2CY bird Whitwell and then off east) ,

12 Greenfinch (Walsey Hills) ,

1 Coal Tit (Walsey Hills) ,

2 Little Grebe (Snipes and in display mode) ,

2 Pochard (Pair on Snipes) ,

2 Coot (Pair on Snipes) ,

1 Buzzard (Over North Foreland and causing mayhem) ,

1 Red Kite (Over North Foreland and causing mayhem) ,

12 Grey Heron (Flushed by Buzzard and Red Kite) ,

15 Little Egret (Flushed by Buzzard and Red Kite and others around reserve) ,

c.85 Black-tailed Godwit (Icelandic) (Pats and Simmonds) ,

2 Egyptian Goose (Vocal pair into Pats) ,

6 Little Ringed Plover (Two pairs Pats and one pair Whitwell, all in display at some time or other) ,

7 Curlew (Simmonds) ,

1 Glossy Ibis (Seen flying into Billy's Wash and then by another observer flying out towards Blakeney Harbour. Had earlier been seen in front of Daukes and then over to Big Pool.) ,

2 Swallow (Males around Central Hides) ,

2 Sand Martin (Richardson's Pool) ,

3 Great White Egret (Billy's Wash) ,

4 Marsh Harrier (Two pais - some nice display flight by one male) ,

14 Wigeon (A few still hanging around Simmonds and North Scrape) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 15:53 to 15:54

Conditions : E11, sunlight.

2 Great White Egret (the rise of great whiteness) ,

[Tom Whiley]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:55 to 09:00

Conditions : 6-11C, ENE f3, Hazy sun after early mist. Visited Bishop's, Snipe's, E Bank & Arnold's.

4 Pintail (Brackish) ,

2 Pochard (m + f Skirts Pool) ,

2 Little Grebe (Snipe's) ,

7 Cormorant ,

2 Little Egret ,

1 Marsh Harrier (m) ,

3 Coot (2 Snipe's, 1 Don's) ,

1 Water Rail (heard) ,

8 Oystercatcher (Arnold's/Serpentine) ,

110 Avocet ,

169 Black-tailed Godwit ,

1 Bar-tailed Godwit (Arnold's) ,

14 Curlew ,

1 Snipe (Brackish) ,

41 Redshank ,

8 Ruff (5 ad m, 1 1w m, 2 ad f) ,

1 Turnstone (Brackish) ,

11 Dunlin ,

3 Little Ringed Plover (2 Serpentine, 1 Pat's) ,

3 Ringed Plover (1 Brackish, 2 Arnold's) ,

1 Grey Plover (Arnold's) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Glaven Valley

Time : 14:25 to 14:25

Conditions : Cloudless, cold easterly.

1 Goshawk (South along the Glaven.) ,

[Gerard Sabran]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 13:00 to 15:30

Conditions : Cold wind, sunny

3 Little Ringed Plover (Simmonds and Whitwell) ,

4 Ruff (Simmonds and Whitwell) ,

2 Spoonbill (Adult preening on Whitwell and fly-about by 2CY bird) ,

1 Little Egret (In courtship plumage with violet coloured lores - in front of Daukes Hide) ,

5 Great White Egret (Around reserve) ,

[David Griffiths]