Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 07:00 to 08:10

Conditions : 7-8C, overcast, NNW f5-6 gusting 7. Visited Bishop's, S end E Bank & Watling Water.

540 Pink-footed Goose (NE off reserve as we arrived with 9 left on Pat's) ,

2 Pintail (Pat's) ,

72 Teal (Watling Water) ,

1 Little Grebe (Don's Pool) ,

2 Avocet (Pat's) ,

56 Black-tailed Godwit (52 Pat's, 4 Watling) ,

6 Curlew (W over E Bank) ,

1 Spotted Redshank (Pat's) ,

1 Redshank (Watling Water) ,

7 Ruff (4 ad m, juv m, 2 juv f, Pat's) ,

47 Dunlin (Pat's) ,

78 Lapwing ,

2 Red Kite (Over Walsey & Watling Water) ,

4 Marsh Harrier ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 11:20 to 14:00

Conditions : Becoming increasingly cloudy as the afternoon came along. One shower. NNE breeze picked up noticeably between 1245-1345.

1 Leach's Petrel (Real surprise to pick this one up, gliding gently east, low over the sea just after midday. Total bonus bird!) ,

320 Little Gull (Minimum count, light passage east became a steady stream for a while and I suspect I missed many more at the longest range) ,

1 Mediterranean Gull (Lone adult east) ,

75 Kittiwake (All heading east) ,

1 Great Northern Diver (Adult in almost full summer plumage, a little bit "salt & pepper" around the face but almost perfect aside from that) ,

600 Gannet (Minimum count, with many birds on the horizon, feeding around Sheringham Shoal) ,

30 Razorbill (Sat on the sea, one or two small rafts) ,

8 Guillemot (Sat on the sea as well) ,

40 Razorbill/Guillemot sp. (Heading mainly east) ,

40 Red-throated Diver (Eastbound bar half a dozen on the sea) ,

25 Common Scoter (In two groups, all females/immatures) ,

1 Eider (Same drake as seen at Salthouse earlier) ,

2 Pale-bellied Brent Goose (Two adults in the Brent flock in the Eye Field) ,

1 Barnacle Goose (In amongst the Brents as well) ,

225 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (Again, nice to see several family parties in the Eye) ,

22 White-fronted Goose (Eurasian) (Minimum, some more may have been hidden below the Bull Marsh/Eye Field bank) ,

[Mark Golley]

Location : Salthouse

Time : 09:00 to 11:00

Conditions : Bright, sunny morning with light ENE breeze

9 Shore Lark (First groupo of four were just west of Little Eye on the shingle, then another five were on the bank 100 yards east of the north end of Iron Road) ,

7 Snow Bunting (Seven birds with the Shore Larks near Iron Road, looking like a Richardson painting!) ,

4 Rock Pipit (Four Scandinavian Rock Pipits - littoralis - on the Iron Road pool) ,

1 Eider (A fine drake on the sea off Little Eye that drifted up to Cley) ,

22 Dunlin (Feeding on the Iron Road pool) ,

3 Red Kite (Along the ridge and reedbeds) ,

[Mark Golley]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 07:00 to 09:20

Conditions : 9-10C, ENE f4, light cloud. Visited Bishop's Skirts, E Bank & Arnold's.

5 Mute Swan (pr with 3 juvs on Don's (the family bred at Salthouse duck pond)) ,

102 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (Eye field (counted from Bishop's)) ,

1 Pale-bellied Brent Goose (Eye Field) ,

2 Egyptian Goose ,

6 Pintail (Brackish) ,

1 Little Egret ,

32 Cormorant (Arnold's) ,

9 Little Grebe (Main Drain) ,

4 Curlew ,

54 Black-tailed Godwit ,

2 Redshank ,

20 Ruff (18 (Popes Pool), 1 ad m + 1 juv m Pat's) ,

148 Dunlin ,

2 Grey Plover (Arnold's) ,

104 Lapwing ,

2 Buzzard ,

6 Marsh Harrier (at least, incl m & f with orange wing tags and another f with yellow tags) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Salthouse

Time : 10:30 to 13:00

Conditions : Glorious sunshine, no wind.

3 White-fronted Goose (2 adults & a juv in off the sea) ,

12 Shore Lark ,

c.20 Twite ,

3 Lapland Bunting ,

[Rob Lee]

Location : Salthouse

Time : 08:45 to 09:45

6 Shore Lark (On shingle, 400 yards west of Iron Road) ,

[David Bryant]

Location : Salthouse

Time : 08:30 to 08:40

40 Twite (Two separate groups on shingle, west of Iron Road) ,

[David Bryant]

Location : Salthouse (sea)

Time : 08:25 to 08:40

2 Eider (Seen catching several crabs!) ,

[David Bryant]

Location : Blakeney Point

Time : 10:25 to 12:30

Conditions : Mist, thick at times, clearing occasionally.

1 Short-eared Owl (A sudden surprise, emerging from the fog. Blakeney Eye.) ,

[Gerard Sabran]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 10:43 to 11:00

Conditions : SW8, sun & mist.

2 Lapland Bunting (end of Iron rd & mobile.) ,

[Tom Whiley]