Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 16:00 to 16:00

Conditions : Bright, warm

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

[Sean Dempster]

Location : Cley/Salthouse

Time : 09:50 to 09:55

Conditions : Breaking cloud, fresh NNW.

2 Turtle Dove (Babcock's/Watling Water graced by these two juveniles. And an adult for comparison, (from within the Cley square).) ,

1 Great White Egret (Babcock's.) ,

[Gerard Sabran]

Location : Cley (sea)

Time : 05:30 to 07:30

29 Gannet (Mostly west) ,

179 Common Scoter (All west mostly males) ,

3 Arctic Skua (West) ,

2 Dunlin ,

1 Grey Plover ,

6 Oystercatcher ,

6 Teal ,

1 Whimbrel ,

1 Razorbill (Juvenile on sea) ,

4 Knot ,

5 Bar-tailed Godwit ,

1 Little Tern ,

1 Sandwich Tern ,

[David Fell]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 10:00 to 11:20

Conditions : 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]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:30 to 08:45

Conditions : 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]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 14:00 to 15:45

Conditions : 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]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:30 to 08:50

Conditions : 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]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:35 to 09:10

Conditions : 16-19C, W f3, Hazy sun/cloud. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank & Arnold's.

192 Greylag Goose (E of E Bank, flew in from 06:45 ) ,

3 Little Grebe (plus 2 lge chicks ) ,

2 Spoonbill (ad + juv, Pat's) ,

2 Grey Heron ,

1 Great White Egret (Pat's) ,

10 Little Egret ,

3 Cattle Egret ,

10 Cormorant ,

2 Marsh Harrier (m + f) ,

2 Kestrel ,

5 Oystercatcher (Arnold's) ,

7 Avocet (incl. 5 juvs, Pat's) ,

60 Curlew (56 off E Bank, 4 Arnold's) ,

1 Snipe (Serpentine) ,

46 Black-tailed Godwit (Pat's) ,

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

1 Greenshank (Arnold's) ,

47 Redshank ,

5 Green Sandpiper (2 Snipe's, 3 Pat's) ,

2 Common Sandpiper (Pat's) ,

13 Ruff (11 ad m, 2 ad f, Pat's) ,

9 Dunlin (Arnold's) ,

3 Ringed Plover (1 beach, 2+ 2 lge chicks Arnold's) ,

21 Sandwich Tern (Arnold's) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Salthouse Heath

Time : 09:46 to 09:46

Conditions : Broken cloud, cool, fresh northerly.

3 Hobby (Family party of three flew in together from the south, low over the Heath, then skittered north.) ,

[Gerard Sabran]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:35 to 10:25

Conditions : Warm, wind from NW.

6 Spoonbill (2 adults and 2 tspoons Simmonds) ,

7 Cattle Egret (1 Simmonds, remainder west over reserve) ,

3 Green Sandpiper (Pats) ,

1 Common Sandpiper (Simmonds) ,

3 Curlew (Simmonds) ,

2 Marsh Harrier (Female and juvenile) ,

160 Lapwing (Inc leucistic bird) ,

c.3 Arctic Skua (west - distant) ,

1 Fulmar (west) ,

1 Arctic Tern (Feeding melee over wreck) ,

3 Little Tern (Feeding and then west) ,

1 Mediterranean Gull (adult SP moulting out west) ,

1 Kittiwake (Juv west) ,

150 Teal (west) ,

c.200 Common Scoter (west) ,

c.20 Gannet (mainly east) ,

4 Whimbrel (west) ,

3 Turnstone (west) ,

12 Bar-tailed Godwit (west) ,

25 Oystercatcher (west) ,

10 Knot (west) ,

35 Dunlin (west) ,

5 Sanderling (west) ,

1 Ringed Plover (west) ,

1 Curlew (west) ,

1 Guillemot (Pale chocolate southern bird on sea then off east) ,

1 Razorbill (East) ,

3 Common Tern (west) ,

[David Griffiths]