CBC Wildlife News

Records submitted in the last 14 days, most recent first. Amber indicates local or uncommon, 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).

Sat 02 August 2025

Cley 10Km Square
20:20 to 20:25

4 Roe Deer (In cut field west of north end of OWL) ,

[David Fell]

Sat 02 August 2025

Cley Marshes
18:15 to 20:10

5 Green Sandpiper (4 Pats 1 Simmons) ,

1 Common Sandpiper (Pats) ,

1 Wood Sandpiper (Pats) ,

1 Curlew Sandpiper (SP on Pats) ,

1 Mediterranean Gull (Juv Pats) ,

2 Marsh Harrier (Male and juv) ,

1 Chinese Water Deer (In front of Dukes) ,

[David Fell]

Sat 02 August 2025

Cley Marshes
16:00 to 16:00
Bright, warm

1 Bittern (Flew east across East Bank, landing near Don’s Pool) ,

[Sean Dempster]

Sat 02 August 2025

Cley/Salthouse
09:50 to 09:55
Breaking cloud, fresh NNW.

2 Turtle Dove (Babcock hide. Juveniles. ) ,

1 Great White Egret (Babcock's.) ,

[Gerard Sabran]

Sat 02 August 2025

Cley Marshes
08:00 to 16:00
Cool initially with some downpours from the west. Wind from WNW.

15 Sandwich Tern (offshore) ,

5 Little Tern ,

1 Arctic Tern (west) ,

2 Common Tern (west) ,

12 Bar-tailed Godwit (west) ,

5 Sanderling (west) ,

6 Oystercatcher (west) ,

25 Dunlin (west) ,

c.1 Grey Plover (west) ,

65 Curlew (60 on Eye Field, 5 west during seawatch) ,

1 Whimbrel (west) ,

5 Turnstone (west) ,

250 Common Scoter (west) ,

c.60 Teal (west) ,

c.20 Gannet ,

c.3 Marsh Harrier (Female and 2 juveniles) ,

15 Ruff (All on Pats) ,

1 Wood Sandpiper (Pats) ,

2 Common Sandpiper (Pats/Simmonds) ,

3 Green Sandpiper (Pats/Simmonds) ,

1 Curlew Sandpiper (Moulting adult on Pats) ,

8 Redshank (Simmonds - 2 groups of four) ,

30 Lapwing (Pats/Simmonds) ,

58 Black-tailed Godwit (Icelandic) (Serpentine) ,

35 Dunlin (Arnolds late AM) ,

1 Avocet (Arnolds Marsh) ,

28 Redshank (Arnolds Marsh) ,

12 Knot (Flew west) ,

120 Greylag Goose (Serpentine including a dodgy looking leucistic bird) ,

c.23 Cattle Egret (Maximum on fields with cattle AM and then regular sightings throughout the day) ,

5 Spoonbill (2 adults, 3 t-spoons on Simmonds) ,

1 Great White Egret (East over reserve) ,

12 Little Egret (Reserve wide) ,

c.2 Bearded Tit (Juvenile males opposite Daukes Hide PM) ,

2 Whitethroat (Juveniles feeding on blackberries on the Skirts path PM) ,

[David Griffiths]

Fri 01 August 2025

Cley Marshes
10:00 to 11:20
Overcast and grey after heavy rain. Wind from NE.

4 Cattle Egret (3 East of Salthouse Beach Road, 1 Eye Field) ,

4 Arctic Skua (Initially 2 pale phase in from north harrassing terns then off west and then east where settled on the sea) ,

1 Arctic Tern (west) ,

1 Common Tern (west) ,

c.60 Common Scoter (west) ,

c.30 Teal (west) ,

c.25 Sandwich Tern (west) ,

1 Bar-tailed Godwit (west) ,

1 Knot (west) ,

1 Oystercatcher (west) ,

c.15 Gannet (west) ,

1 Little Gull (adult feeding offshore for ca 20 minutes then off west) ,

[David Griffiths]

Fri 01 August 2025

Cley Marshes
07:17 to 07:20
rain and sun, NW21

1 Hybrid Gull (returns to beach about 1st Aug each year...) ,

[Tom Whiley]

Thu 31 July 2025

Cley Marshes
06:30 to 08:45
16-19C, WSW f3, Cloud with some light rain. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank & Arnold's.

2 Egyptian Goose (Serpentine) ,

19 Canada Goose (Serpentine) ,

130 Greylag Goose (Serpentine area) ,

1 Grey Heron ,

1 Spoonbill (Snipe's) ,

1 Great White Egret ,

8 Little Egret ,

1 Cattle Egret ,

6 Cormorant (Arnold's) ,

3 Little Grebe (ad + 1 lge chick on Snipe's, 2 ads Don's) ,

2 Moorhen (ad, juv and 2 small chicks on Snipes) ,

4 Oystercatcher (Arnold's) ,

50 Curlew ,

47 Black-tailed Godwit ,

1 Black-tailed Godwit (European) (Serpentine,ad 'Anouk') ,

35 Redshank (plus 2 med/lge chicks on Arnold's) ,

6 Green Sandpiper (4 Pat's, 2 Serpentine) ,

1 Wood Sandpiper (Pat's) ,

1 Common Sandpiper (Pat's) ,

15 Ruff (13 adm, 2 adf, Pat's) ,

8 Dunlin (Arnold's) ,

8 Ringed Plover (incl. 2 juvs) ,

2 Golden Plover (Arnold's) ,

5 Lapwing (plus 1 lge chick on Serpentine) ,

2 Sandwich Tern (Arnold's) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Wed 30 July 2025

Cley Marshes
14:00 to 15:45
Warm, wind from WNW

1 Great White Egret (Flew west over reserve) ,

3 Marsh Harrier (Female and 2 juvs with one of the latter taking an unhealthy interest in a deceased Black Headed Gull on Whitwell Scrape) ,

c.230 Lapwing (Pats and Simmonds with leucistic bird still around (Pats)) ,

15 Ruff (All on Pats) ,

3 Green Sandpiper (Pats) ,

23 Black-tailed Godwit (Icelandic) (Pats) ,

1 Little Egret (Simmonds) ,

9 Cattle Egret (One Eye Field, 5 on Simmonds and 3 flew west) ,

1 Chinese Water Deer (Simmonds) ,

1 Curlew (Simmonds then off west) ,

[David Griffiths]

Wed 30 July 2025

Cley Marshes
06:30 to 08:50
16-19C, NW f3, Mainly sunny. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank & Arnold's

184 Greylag Goose (flew into Serpentine from fields at 6:40) ,

2 Little Grebe (ad + 2 lge chicks Snipe's, ad Don's) ,

1 Grey Heron ,

7 Little Egret ,

12 Cattle Egret (10 off E Bank, 2 briefly Pat's) ,

2 Cormorant ,

1 Marsh Harrier ,

2 Kestrel ,

5 Oystercatcher (Arnold's) ,

2 Avocet (Pat's) ,

70 Curlew ,

1 Whimbrel (heard only) ,

45 Black-tailed Godwit (44 Pat's, 1 Arnold's) ,

1 Black-tailed Godwit (European) (ad f, 'Anouk' Pat's) ,

3 Snipe (2 Pat's, 1 Serpentine) ,

1 Greenshank (Arnold's) ,

40 Redshank (plus 2 lge chicks) ,

7 Green Sandpiper (5 Snipe's, 2 Pat's) ,

1 Common Sandpiper (Pat's) ,

16 Ruff (14 ad m, 2 ad f, Pat's) ,

10 Dunlin (Arnold's) ,

66 Lapwing (plus 1 lge chick) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]