Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 14:14 to 16:30

Conditions : Warm, overcast, but strengthening SW wind.

5 Spoonbill (2 adults again with their 3 tspoons) ,

3 Great White Egret (Over main reedbed) ,

6 Cattle Egret (Busy frog-bashing - gone in less sixty seconds!) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 12:00 to 12:01

Conditions : Hot. Sun.

6 Spoonbill (the martians have landed...) ,

[Tom Whiley]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 07:30 to 13:00

Conditions : Warm, keen wind from SW reducing through the morning. Hazy later and getting humid.

1 Quail (Singing intermittently in field just east of the VC. Had stopped just before 08:00.) ,

40 Mediterranean Gull (Flocks of 10 and 14 early on and then a trickle throughout the morning. All west.) ,

6 Little Ringed Plover (Pats and even ) ,

1 Bearded Tit (Path to Bishops Hide.) ,

7 Cetti's Warbler (Singing - skirts and East Bank.) ,

c.21 Sedge Warbler (Cley Beach road, Skirts and East bank. ) ,

11 Reed Warbler (Cley Beach road, Skirts and East bank. ) ,

7 Spoonbill (2 adults, 1 2CY and 3 tspoons on Simmonds and an adult in to wash up and collect nesting material and then off east.) ,

3 Cattle Egret (Max at one time - Cricket Marsh etc) ,

3 Great White Egret (Billy's Wash) ,

15 Little Egret (Reserve wide) ,

6 Reed Bunting (singing males - Cley Beach Road to East Bank) ,

4 Whitethroat (Skirts and VC) ,

1 Hobby (Hunting over scrapes) ,

c.4 Swallow (active around central hides) ,

4 Swift (Over reserve) ,

8 House Martin (Over reserve and collecting mud from Pats Pool) ,

3 Marsh Harrier (Over reserve - several food passes) ,

3 Velvet Scoter (East passed coastguards) ,

14 Common Scoter (west) ,

6 Gannet (Milling around distantly) ,

2 Fulmar (west) ,

14 Dunlin (west) ,

1 Common Tern (west) ,

20 Sandwich Tern (Fishing offshore and then back west) ,

25 Little Tern (Offshore fishing and back west) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley/Salthouse

Time : 13:00 to 16:15

Conditions : Clearish skies and cool wind from SW, dropping later and becoming humid

5 Cattle Egret (4 on Cricket Marsh with cattle and later another west over the reserve) ,

25 Canada Goose (On the sea, drifting west off Gramborough. ) ,

6 Great White Egret (Much toing and froing around the reserve) ,

12 Little Egret (around reserve) ,

c.6 Spoonbill (2 adults and 3 ) ,

c.6 Little Ringed Plover (Still not settled and much display/inter-species aggro going on.) ,

1 Hobby (Hunting over the scrapes) ,

c.4 Marsh Harrier (Much activity and the odd food-pass) ,

2 Egyptian Goose (adults on Simmonds) ,

4 Mallard (Female with 3 well grown ducklings) ,

3 Shoveler (2 drakes and a female) ,

16 Mediterranean Gull (6 adults west at Gramborough then a second year bird west. Remaining birds seen trickling through Cley during the afternoon.) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 11:26 to 13:26

Conditions : Wind SW very humid

1 Whitethroat (Along path to East Bank ) ,

6 Spoonbill (5 On Simmonds and 1 on Whitwell ) ,

[Graham Brownlow]

Location : Cley (sea)

Time : 07:50 to 08:20

Conditions : Clearish skies, cool wind from SW

35 Little Tern (East and west fishing) ,

c.3 Sandwich Tern (East and west fishing) ,

c.1 Common Tern (West) ,

1 Gannet (East) ,

1 Fulmar (West) ,

12 Bar-tailed Godwit (west) ,

2 Oystercatcher (west) ,

30 Canada Goose (Flying east and landed on sea. See PM report of same species.) ,

[David Griffiths]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:35 to 09:00

Conditions : 16-20C, SW f4-5, Sun. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, Snipe's, E Bank, Arnold's, Sea Pool & Iron Rd.

4 Spoonbill ,

1 Grey Heron ,

3 Great White Egret ,

4 Little Egret ,

3 Cormorant ,

3 Marsh Harrier ,

1 Kestrel (Iron Rd) ,

1 Little Grebe (Snipe's) ,

11 Oystercatcher ,

54 Avocet ,

20 Redshank ,

3 Dunlin (Pat's) ,

5 Little Ringed Plover (Pat's) ,

5 Ringed Plover (Arnold's, 1 had 3 little chicks) ,

1 Grey Plover (Arnold's) ,

3 Mediterranean Gull (ads E over E Bank calling then 2 flew back W ) ,

1 Little Tern (Arnold's, many more flying around) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Glaven Valley

Time : 21:45 to 21:45

Conditions : Almost dark. Warm, windy

3 Tawny Owl (Adult and two branching and calling young.) ,

[Sean Dempster]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 06:40 to 09:10

Conditions : 13-16C, S f4 cloud. Visited Bishop's, Skirts, E Bank to Arnold's & Snipe's.

3 Egyptian Goose (Serpentine, including 1 very pale bird.) ,

3 Wigeon (Serpentine) ,

1 Spoonbill ,

2 Grey Heron ,

2 Great White Egret ,

6 Little Egret ,

6 Cormorant ,

2 Marsh Harrier (m + f) ,

11 Oystercatcher ,

39 Avocet ,

4 Black-tailed Godwit (Pat's) ,

2 Black-tailed Godwit (European) (ad m c-r bird with an unringed fem, Pat's) ,

7 Bar-tailed Godwit (Arnold's) ,

17 Redshank ,

1 Dunlin (Pat's) ,

3 Little Ringed Plover ,

17 Ringed Plover (1 ad with 3 chicks on Arnolds, 1 beach, 14 tundra Arnolds) ,

1 Reed Bunting (m, N end E Bank.) ,

1 Skylark (Arnold's) ,

[David & Pat Wileman]

Location : Cley Marshes

Time : 20:20 to 20:50

Conditions : Still, light cloud.

1 Spoonbill (Snipes) ,

1 Little Grebe (Snipes) ,

1 Cetti's Warbler (Snipes) ,

4 Great White Egret (Flew over East bank car park) ,

2 Bearded Tit (East bank) ,

3 Marsh Harrier ,

6 Knot (Arnold's) ,

1 Ringed Plover (Tundra) (Arnold's) ,

4 Shoveler (Pair with 2 young) ,

1 Sedge Warbler (East bank) ,

1 Reed Bunting (East bank) ,

2 Reed Warbler (East bank) ,

7 Avocet (Arnold's) ,

[Steve Clark]