Welcome to Cley Bird Club

The Cley Bird Club (CBC) exists to bring together everybody who has an interest in the Birds of the Cley area in North Norfolk, UK.

As a visitor to this site you are free to view much of the content, but if you wish to submit your bird sightings or upload photos you must log in. If you have not yet registered, please do so, it is free and only requires you to give us your name and email address. This enables us to contact you if there is a query with your sightings or someone wishes to use one of your photos.

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About The Club

The Cley Bird Club was founded in 1986 and now has over 450 households as members. It aims to bring together people who enjoy birding in the Cley Square.

Through this website and its regular newsletter, which is produced 3 times a year, it keeps local and visiting members up to date with birding issues and what is being seen in The Square. Indoor meetings are held at Cley during the winter months and, in recent years, a Big Bird Day has been held in January to count birds in the Square.

Membership

We welcome new members, and membership of Cley Bird Club is only £4 per year per household. For this you will get full access to the Cley Bird Club website including all articles, the Forum and access to three newsletters in the current year as well as previous ones back to November 2011. These can either be read online or downloaded and then printed.

For an extra £5 per year you can receive professionally printed copies of the newsletter delivered directly to your door. Whenever in the year this application is made the member will receive 3 paper newsletters for that year.

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Recent Highlights

Water Rail photographed from Bishop Hide (David Tipling)

A smart looking American Golden Plover photographed by David Griffiths

Glossy Ibis photographed by Tom Whiley

Hobby by Gerard Sabran

The long staying Long-billed Dowitcher departed in spring before returning a few weeks later (David Griffiths)

A returning Spotted Redshank still in breeding plumage photographed by Richard Price

Turtle Dove by Gerard Sabran

A Wood Sandpiper by David Griffiths

(Please do remember to upload your photographs!)

Latest News

HAPPY CHRISTMAS to all

CBC Big Bird Day – Saturday 4th January

Enjoy a day or part day of birding around the Cley 10Km Square (TG04). Enter a team in the Bird Race or do some casual birding around the Square to help us determine how many species are in the area that day. Then come along to the NWT Visitor Centre from 4pm for refreshments and […]

Species	Count	Location	Last Reported
Cattle Egret	1	Wiveton	25/12/2024
Yellowhammer	11	Langham	25/12/2024
Great Northern Diver	1	Cley Marshes	21/12/2024
Long-billed Dowitcher	1	Cley Marshes	21/12/2024
Great White Egret	1	Cley Marshes	21/12/2024