Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 15:00 to 15:45

Conditions : Cool n'wester, bright with broken cloud.

5 Goldcrest (Busy feeding in gorse, to the west of the W Bank) ,

6 Chiffchaff (Busy feeding in the same gorse bushes.) ,

[Gerard Sabran]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 13:30 to 15:00

Conditions : Sunny but cool wind of the sea.

1 Jack Snipe (Serpentine and in flight after flush by Sparrowhawk) ,

16 Snipe (Flushed by Sparrowhaw) ,

1 Sparrowhawk (Over Serpentine) ,

1 Pintail (Drake on Serpentine) ,

5 Ruff (Serpentine) ,

1 Black Redstart (Richardsons's Shelter, Sluice, Catchwater Drain and muddy banks.) ,

1 Goldcrest (East Bank reeds working its way south) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Morston

Time : 07:00 to 08:15

2 Black Redstart (2 female types still present on boats) ,

1 Spoonbill (Feeding in creek east of car park) ,

5 Grey Partridge (2 pair viewed whilst another bird called. All in set aside field east of car park) ,

[David Fell]

Location : Cley 10Km Square

Time : 07:30 to 15:00

Conditions : Initially fine and warming up nicely but with a cool SE wind. PM - rain.

1 Wheatear (Male on fence-line east of beach carpark) ,

3 Black Redstart (Male and 2 female types Morston Quay) ,

4 Great White Egret (Billy's Wash and Simmonds generally and several flights around reserve ) ,

1 Spoonbill (Whitwell/Simmonds) ,

9 Ruff (Pats and Simmonds) ,

5 Cetti's Warbler (Singing mainly Catchwater and from Daukes) ,

9 Lesser White-fronted Goose (Initially on North Scrape having flown in from Blakeney and then on Simmonds although they did take an early afternoon flight to Blakeney Harbour.) ,

17 Dunlin (Simmonds) ,

1 Merlin (Male over reedbeds PM) ,

1 Buzzard (Usual bird perched up east of Simmonds Scrape) ,

1 Red Kite (Over reserve) ,

5 Marsh Harrier (Over reserve and some early morning sky-dancing) ,

2 Snipe (Simmonds) ,

1 Jack Snipe (In flight Simmonds to Pats and lost ) ,

4 Great Crested Grebe (on sea) ,

400 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (North Scrape) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Langham

Time : 14:50 to 14:50

Conditions : Cloudy, cool

1 Woodcock (In hedge 200 m down track towards Field Dalling) ,

[Sean Dempster]

Location : Blakeney

Time : 07:52 to 07:52

1 Swallow (Flew over quay) ,

[Gary Bunting]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 07:45 to 10:00

Conditions : Cool with a sharp wind from the SE increasing in intensity. Reasonable light.

3 Peregrine (Adult male and female over Eye Field with male then feeding on small prey after the female flew west. Later a sub-adult male putting on a stunning display over the reserve and even landing next to the Lesser White Fronted geese who remained totally unconcerned by the presence.) ,

3 Red Kite (Feeding around reserve) ,

1 Buzzard (Perched up east of Simmonds) ,

5 Marsh Harrier (Adult male and four females including a wing-tagged bird (red tag only on ? left wing - unable to read).g) ,

2 Kestrel (Male and female hunting) ,

9 Lesser White-fronted Goose (On SE corner of Simmonds for most of my time at Daukes, then onto the water before being flushed by a Marsh Harrier and off high west.) ,

2 Pintail (Drakes on Simmonds) ,

4 Great White Egret (Two Simmonds and 2 Billy's Wash) ,

1 Spoonbill (Adult in from the west to Simmonds) ,

7 Ruff (Simmonds) ,

6 Meadow Pipit (North fence-line) ,

17 Dunlin (Simmonds) ,

1 Curlew (Simmonds) ,

4 Raven (East over Walsey Hills) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 07:00 to 08:50

Conditions : 11-14C, ESE f4, sun clouding over, cool breeze. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank viewing Brackish & Arnold's

40 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (E) ,

2 Egyptian Goose ,

14 Pintail (2 Serpentine, 12 Brackish ) ,

2 Little Grebe (1 Snipe's, 1 Don's Pool) ,

8 Grey Heron ,

2 Great White Egret ,

4 Little Egret ,

3 Cormorant ,

1 Red Kite ,

2 Marsh Harrier ,

2 Coot (Snipe's) ,

6 Oystercatcher ,

142 Avocet ,

136 Black-tailed Godwit ,

4 Curlew ,

48 Redshank ,

11 Ruff (8 ad m, 3 ad f Pat's) ,

1 Turnstone (Brackish) ,

118 Dunlin ,

2 Ringed Plover (Arnold's) ,

2 Cetti's Warbler (1 heard E Bank c-p, 1 seen E Bank) ,

1 Chiffchaff (calling from N Foreland) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]