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All newsletters include a review of birds seen during the previous 4 months, a brief review of other interesting sightings in the rest of Norfolk, and Cley Eye, containing notes, news and comments.

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Front cover image of Newsletter 131 featuring a photo of a Peregrine in flight
  • Editorial – taking better note of our breeding birds
  • Cley Square Bird News – November 2024 to February 2025 Pat & David Wileman
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – November 2024 to February 2025 Julian Thomas
  • Club News
  • Cley News
  • The Arctic Peregrine at Cley Steve Gantlett
  • Winter 2024–25 Photo Highlights
  • Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley Square Winter 2024–25 Russ Malin
  • Two dead Sparrowhawks… Steve Gantlett
  • The 5th CBC New Year Big Bird Day – Saturday 4th January 2025
  • The Cley and Norfolk Rare Bird Photograph Archive Steve Gantlett
  • Review: The North Sea Bird Club 1979–2019
  • The 2025 Lesser White-fronted Geese in Norfolk Steve Gantlett
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Newsletter cover showing a photograph of a Yellow-browed Warbler in a tree
  • Editorial – early CBC Newsletters and more Turtle Doves
  • Cley Square Bird News – July to October 2024 Pat & David Wileman
  • Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley Square Autumn 2024 Russ Malin
  • Remember when you would twitch a Cattle Egret? David Griffiths
  • Autumn 2024 Photo Highlights
  • Two exceptional falls of migrants on Blakeney Point within a week Steve Gantlett
  • Blakeney Point: Longshore Drift Migrant Supernova Rob Holmes
  • Club News
  • Cley News
  • The best of the rest of Norfolk – July to October 2024 Julian Thomas

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Cover page of newsletter showing two nearly fledged Raven chicks in a nest
  • Editorial
  • Cley Square Bird News – March to June 2024 – Pat & David Wileman
  • White-tailed Eagle WN88 – Steve Gantlett
  • Spring 2024 Photo Highlights
  • Breeding bird changes at Cley in living memory
  • The best of the rest of Norfolk – March to June 2024 – Julian Thomas
  • Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley Square Spring 2024 – Russ Malin
  • Club News
  • Cley News
  • Birding and the brain – Isabel Cooke
  • What has happened to our Barn Owls? – Julian Thomas
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  • Editorial
  • Cley Square Bird News – November 2023 to February 2024 – Pat & David Wileman
  • Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley Square Winter 2023-24 – Russ Malin
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – November 2023 to February 2024 – Julian Thomas
  • A breeding bird survey on Salthouse Heath in 2023 – Richard Porter
  • Winter 2023-24 Photo Highlights
  • Pink-footed Geese at Cley – a brief history – David Griffiths
  • Club News
  • Cley News
  • The 5th CBC New Year Big Bird Day – Saturday 6th January 2024
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  • Editorial – The future of Turtle Doves?
  • Cley Square Bird News – July to October 2023 – Pat & David Wileman
  • The Blakeney Point 2023 breeding season – Duncan Halpin, Head Ranger, Blakeney Point NT
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – July to October 2023 – Julian Thomas
  • Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley Square – Autumn 2023 – Russ Malin
  • Autumn 2023 Photo Highlights
  • The Grayling – flailing or failing – Richard Porter
  • A summer White-tailed Eagle at Bayfield – Richard Price
  • Club News
  • Cley News
  • Comments
  • Mannington – a hidden gem in North Norfolk – Emma Buck, Mannington Estate Countryside Ranger
  • Who owns the Cley Square? II – Steve Gantlett
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  • Cley Square Bird News – March to June 2023 – Pat & David Wileman
  • Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley Square Spring 2023 – Russ Malin
  • The changing plumages of Cley’s long-staying, over-wintering Long-billed Dowitcher – Steve Gantlett
  • Spring 2023 Photo Highlights
  • A selection of previous summer-plumaged ‘Lesser Golden Plovers, compared to the June 2023 bird – Steve Gantlett
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – March to June 2023 – Julian Thomas
  • Club News
  • Cley News
  • Dave ‘the dog’ Rutherford
  • A Phylloscopus conundrum in Walsey Hills – Chris Gooddie
  • Home Farm Wetlands Project, Bayfield – Richard Price
  • Who owns the Cley Square? – Steve Gantlett

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  • Cley Square Bird News – November 2022 – February 2023 — Pat & David Wileman
  • Cley Bird Club – a brief history
  • Review ‘The Meaning of Geese’ — Tom Green
  • Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley Square Winter 2022-23 — Julian Thomas
  • Winter 2022/23 Photo Highlights
  • The Best of the Rest in Norfolk – November 2022 – February 2023 — Russ Malin
  • The 4th CBC New Year Big Bird Day – Saturday 7th January 2023
  • Club News
  • Cley News
  • The Motus Wildlife Tracking System – including in the Cley Square — Steve Stansfield & Ewan Parsons
  • Birds – a local farmer’s perspective — Patrick Allen

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  • Cley Square Bird News – July to October 2022 – Pat & David Wileman
  • Autumn 2022 Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley Square – Russ Malin
  • Spoonbills breeding at Cley, at last! – Steve Gantlett
  • Autumn 2022 Photo Highlights
  • Bitterns breeding again at Cley (at last!) – David Griffiths
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – July to October 2022 – Julian Thomas
  • Club News
  • Cley News
  • Battle of the Box III – a truce – Richard Price
  • Decline and Fall – Tom Green

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  • Cley Square Bird News – March to June 2022 – Pat & David Wileman
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – March to June 2022 –  Julian Thomas
  • Spring 2022 Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley square
  • Spring 2022 Photo Highlights
  • The changing face of Salthouse Heath – Steve Gantlett
  • Centenary Celebration of Richard Richardson’s birth  – Moss Taylor & Robina Churchyard
  • Kelling Hard – a local County Wildlife Site is no more  – Chris Mason
  • Robert Gillmor MBE 1936–2022 – a personal reflection  – Tom Green
  • Noel Elms 1935–2022
  • A poisoned Fox? What to do if you think you might have come across wildlife crime – Julian Thomas
  • All our yesterdays – Ortolans for supper
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  • Cley Square Bird News – November 2021 to February 2022 – Pat & David Wileman
  • Winter 2021-22 Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley square
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – November 2021 to February 2022 – Julian Thomas
  • The identification of Isabelline Wheatears at Cley – Mark Golley
  • Winter 2021-22 Photo Highlights
  • Casper – Cley’s white Barn Owl – Steve Gantlett
  • The first confirmed Brünnich’s Guillemot for Norfolk – Marcus Nash
  • The Brünnich’s trek – Steve Gantlett
  • The third CBC New Year Big Bird Day, 8th & 9th January 2022
  • Club & Cley News
  • DIMW – a personal reflection – Richard Porter
  • Baltic Gulls at Cley and Titchwell – Tom Whiley

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  • Editorial
  • Club & Cley News
  • An update on the Enviroment Agency’s mowing of the East and West Banks Chris Gooddie
  • Cley Square Bird News – July to October 2021 Pat & Dave Wileman
  • Battle of the Box 2 – Newsletter 120 Postscript Richard Price
  • Autumn 2021 Other Wildlife Reports in the Cley Square
  • Autumn 2021 Photo Highlights
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – July to October 2021
  • Walsey Hills: my journey so far Emma Buck
  • Blakeney Point: a carpet of flowers – but where were the butterflies? Richard Porter
  • One Swallow doesn’t make a summer Chris Abrams
  • All our yesterdays: autumns gone by. Planet Crunch – the Life (or Death?) of Planet Earth
  • The Blakeney Point Sykes’s Warbler Kayn Forbes

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  • Cley Square Bird News – March to June 2021 Pat & Dave Wileman
  • Spring 2021 White-tailed Eagles in the Cley square Steve Gantlett
  • Wild Ken Hill and the reintroduction of White-tailed Eagles to Norfolk Dominic Buscall
  • Spring 2021 Photo Highlights
  • Best of the Rest – Birds in Norfolk March to June 2021
  • Other Wildlife in the Cley square
  • Beavers to be reintroduced to the Glaven Valley Jonah Tosney
  • Conserving Swifts Ann Duff
  • Lockdown Birding, a personal view – March to June 2020 David Griffiths
  • Orange-breasted Meadow Pipits in spring Malcolm Davies, illustrated by Tom Whiley

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  • Editorial
  • Club & Cley News
  • Cley Square Bird News – November 2020 to February 2021 Pat & David Wileman
  • The Eastern Yellow Wagtail at Kelling Water Meadow – the first record for the Cley area and the second for Norfolk Emma & Steve Stansfield
  • Winter 2020/21 Photo Highlights
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – November 2020 to February 2021
  • Other Wildlife in the Cley square
  • A Woodcock avalanche in TG04 Richard Millington
  • A tale of a Dartford Richard Porter
  • Felbeck Trust – improving wildlife habitats in North Norfolk Trevor Williams and Helen Dawson
  • All our yesterdays: Bird Notes, Mostly from Cley Marsh, June-December 1978 E.R. & E.D. Parrinder
  • Reviews: My Birding Life by Moss Taylor David Horsley; Birds of Mallorca by Neville Davies Tom Green; A Date With A Bird by Alan Vittery
  • Unprecedented number of singing Blyth’s Reed Warblers reach Britain in late spring 2020 Tom Whiley

 

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  • Editorial
  • Club and Cley News
  • Cley square Bird News – July to October 2020 Pat & David Wileman
  • The best of the rest in Norfolk – July to October 2020 Trevor Davies & Pauline Walton
  • Changes in numbers of waterbirds in the Cley square David Wileman
  • Habitat damage at Cley at the height of the breeding season Tom Green
  • Other Wildlife in the Cley square
  • All our yesterdays: autumns gone by
  • Some early December gulls at Cley Tom Whiley



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  • Editorial
  • Cley Square Bird News – March to June 2020 Pat & Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest – Birds in Norfolk March to June 2020 Trevor Davies & Pauline Walton
  • Some thoughts on the legacy lockdown Tom Green
  • Battles of the boxes: Boxing clever Richard Porter
  • Barn Owls beat Kestrels Richard Price
  • Covid spring Mark Golley
  • Other Wildlife in the Cley Square
  • Summer migrants – are they arriving earlier? Chris Wheeler
  • Obituaries: John Ward by Richard Porter and Tony Aberdein by Richard Webb
  • All our yesterdays: Springs gone by
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  • Cley Square Bird News – November 2019 to February 2020 – Pat & Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest – Birds in Norfolk November 2019 to February 2020 – Trevor Davies & Pauline Walton
  • Cley’s first Isabelline Wheatear – November 2019 – Mark Golley
  • A Grey-bellied Brant in Norfolk – James R. McCallum
  • Other Wildlife in the Cley Square
  • The Second CBC New Year Big Bird Day – 11th January 2020 – Lin Pateman, Janice Darch & Ben Clark
  • Club News, Local News
  • An Eastern Yellow Wagtail at Sedgeford, Norfolk – Kayn Forbes
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  • CBC Winter Meetings 2019-2020
  • Cley Square Bird News – March 2019 to June 2019
  • Best of the Rest – Birds in Norfolk
  • Cley and Salthouse Marshes Breeding Report
  • The Wonderful Wader Day
  • Two Celebrations of Seabirds and a Review of Oceanic Birds of the World
  • Oriental Bird Club Meeting – Conservation in China
  • Cley Eye – News and views, nostalgia, breeding Bitterns, a first visit to Cley,
  • Research on UK Roadkill
  • Obituary and the deaths of three A Rocha conservabon leaders
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  • CBC Winter Meetings 2019-2020 – Meetings Organiser – Ann Duff
  • Cley Square Bird News – March 2019 to June 2019 – Pat and Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest – Birds in Norfolk – Trevor Davies and Pauline Walton
  • The second CBC Big Bird Day – Phil Farndon, Tom Green, Richard Webb, Pat and Dave Wileman
  • Great Spotted Cuckoo at Weybourne – The full story – Moss Taylor
  • Tern News (editor) and rare visitors to Blakeney Point – Richard Porter
  • Cley Eye – Reserve news and the LRP saga – George Baldock, Kath Claydon,Pat Wileman
  • Tape-lures – One rule for birders, another rule for ringers? – Richard Webb
  • 25/26 Obituaries- Howard Medhurst and Len Bentley
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  • Cley Square Bird News – November 2018 to February 2019 – Pat and Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest – Birds in Norfolk July to October 2018 – Trevor Davies and Pauline Walton
  • The First CBC Big Bird Day – January 12th 2019 – Pat and Dave Wileman, Sue and Steve Gantlett, Paul Eele, Mark Golley and Tony Marr.
  • Photo centrefold
  • Big Bird Day Continued
  • John Henry Gurney and ‘his’ pitta – Tom Green
  • Conservation Matters – Brent Geese Disturbance, Swifts and the ‘Hookpod’
  • Obituary – Martin Woodcock – Tom Green
  • Cley Eye – Jack Aspinall and the Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre
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  • The First CBC Big Bird Day – Richard Webb
  • Cley Square Bird News – July to October 2018 – Pat and Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest – Birds in Norfolk July to October 2018 – Trevor Davies and Pauline Walton
  • Breeding Birds at Cley 2018 + Ringing Notes – Pat and Dave Wileman
  • Martin Woodcock’s Poem ‘The Hedge’ and Photo Feature
  • Cley Eye – NOA Walsey Hills – Brent Goose research – 40 Anniversary of NNNWT Group – Andy Clarke
  • Conservation Matters – Sculthorpe Moor Land Appeal – Su Gough Albania – EU Research Funding Little Terns
  • Stranger in a fair land – The Cley White-crowned Sparrow – Marcus Webster
  • A quest for Snow Leopards – Chris Abrams
  • CBC Square survey area Maps
  • WEBS Counters Needed – Richard Porter + North Norfolk NWT Group 40th Anniversary – Andy Clarke
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  • Cley Square Bird News: July to October 2017 – Pat and Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest: Norfolk’s best birds of the period. – Trevor Davies and Pauline Walton
  • The latest ringing report from our Club Recorders -Tom Green
  • Mammals, moths and other Cley fauna – Greg Bond
  • Blakeney Point NT Headlines
  • Cley Eye – people and places – local NWT, NT and NOA news
  • Details of CBC Meetings and speakers for this autumn and winter
  • Conservation matters – Local and Global
  • The ecological damage caused by our pets – Richard Webb
  • Corncrakes and the re-introduction projects – Tom Green
  • Birding on the edge – Birding on the Isle of Lewis – Tony Marr
  • Book Review – Moss Taylor’s Wings over Weybourne – Birdlife at the Camp – Tom Green
  • Pantile Penthouse – The Swifts of a Cley Cottage – Julia Porter
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  • Cley Eye and Club News
  • Cley Square Bird News: October 2017 – February 2018 – Pat and Dave Wileman
  • Cley Breeding Birds – Pat and Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest: Norfolk’s best birds of the period – Trevor Davies and Pauline Walton
  • March Woodcock Week – Tom Green et.al.
  • Historic Seed-Eater Bonanza and Tree Sparrows – Tom Green
  • Bird Ringing and Tracking – Tom Green
  • I-Spy Birds – Sixty Years on – Tom Green
  • Polish Mute Swans
  • Conservation Matters
  • Book Review – Gulls of the World – Mark Golley
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  • Club and Local News
  • Cley Square Bird News: July to October 2017 – Pat and Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest: Norfolk’s best birds of the period – Trevor Davies and Pauline Walton
  • Cley Eye – The Demise of Dilly – Richard Porter
  • Obituary to Trevor Poyser – Tom Green
  • Richard Richardson Memorial Events – Angela and Leo Batten
  • The Blakeney Point Little Tern Colony 2017 – Al Davies
  • My first season on Blakeney Point – Ryan Doggart (National Trust)
  • Cley’s first Long-billed Dowitcher – 1969 – Moss Taylor
  • Blakeney Point’s Special Flora – Richard Porter
  • A visit to Cley and Blakeney Point in 1951 – DIM Wallace
  • Photography exhibition by Roger Tidman – Roger Tidman
  • Conservation round-up
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  • Richard Richardson Events 8th October at East Bank. 10th October Cley Village Hall
  • Club Matters and Winter Meetings in Cley Village Hall
  • Cley Square Bird News: November 2016 – February 2017 – Pat & Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest: (Norfolk’s best birds of the period) – Trevor Davies and Pauline Walton
  • Recent and future management of Cley and Salthouse Marshes – Editor
  • The Water Level Management Plan for Cley and Salthouse – Editor
  • Cley Eye – News and Comment, Butterflies, moths and ’other wildlife’ – Greg Bond
  • The Swifts of Cley – Sue and Steve Gantlett
  • The Great White Egret in Norfolk – Beverley and Tom Whiley
  • Conservation Matters – Editor
  • The History of Cley Marshes (first published in BB 2016) – Nick Acheson
  • A day on South Georgia – Chris Abrams
  • A birding trip to Bhutan – Ann Duff
  • Book Review – Waders of Europe by Lars Gjell – Tom Green
  • Turning back the Cley Clock – Rarities
  • Index of Newsletters – No. 104 Spring 2016 to No 107 Spring 2017
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  • Cley Square Bird News: November 2016-February 2017- Pat & Dave Wileman
  • Other bird news, Brent Goose update and The Cley Square list 2016 – Pat & Dave Wileman
  • Best of the Rest: (Norfolk’s best birds of the period) – Trevor Davies & Pauline Walton
  • The History of Cley Marshes (first published in BB 2016) – Nick Acheson
  • Cley Eye – local news and comment
  • Conservation Matters – Malta – Joe Sultana (Birdlife Malta), Eddie Stubbings & Bee Bueche
  • Revisiting ‘Kes’ with Richard Porter and Club News
  • Allen Seaby – an artist inspired by a visit to Cley – Robert Gillmor
  • North Sea Migrants – 25km off North Norfolk – Ryan Irvine
  • Baltic’ Gull thoughts – Tom Whiley
  • Through a glass darkly – First binocular memories! – Nine CBC Members
  • Obituary – Martin Preston – Moss Taylor
  • Details of Dersingham Stonechat Project
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For earlier newsletters, going back to the first one in April 1985, visit our Archive page (accessible by members only).