11th July 2012 - Cley area

A reasonably prodcutive afternoon/evening tour seeing 4 Green & 4 Common Sandpipers, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, c300 Black-tailed Godwits, c20 Ruff, 2 Bearded Tits showed well, a Hobby bombed over east bank, Little Terns & Gannet offshore, 5 SPOONBILLS, 2 Red Knot, 30+ Dunlin, summer plumage Bar-tailed Godwit, adult Yellow-legged Gull, 8 Whimbrel over the first returning birds I have seen and Greenshank.


Black-tailed Godwit in summer dress

After a hearty fish & chip supper we dropped in at Stiffkey fen seeing Barn Owl, Green & 2 Common Sandpipers and a first summer Med Gull.

We finished on one of the heaths, it was quite cool by now which limited the amount of activity but we had some brief churring and a good flight view of a female NIGHTJAR, also 2+ Woodcock roding overhead making their weird frog like & squeaking calls.