Little Gull, Cley, Norfolk, 29th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  This single first-summer Little Gull is still lingering on Pat's Pool.
 

 
Swallow, Cley, Norfolk, 28th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  This juvenile, along with its sibling, chose this rainy day to fledge; sadly a third was dead in the nest.
 

 
Marsh Harrier and Avocets, Cley, Norfolk, 11th June 2013 (Ernie Janes).
 

 
Little Gull, Pat's Pool, Cley, 16th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  Squeezing itself in on the Avocet monoculture.
 

 

 
Avocets, Cley, 16th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  Almost a hundred Avocet chicks and a similar number of adults on Pat's Pool at the moment, leaving very little room for anything else!
 

 
Shovelers, Cley, 16th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett).
 

 
Blackbird, Cley, 16th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  Apparently they rather like mealworms!
 

 
Barn Owl, Cley, 15th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Golden Plover, Eye Field, Cley, 12th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  Four returning Spotted Redshanks also arrived on cue today, making it officially the beginning of autumn today.
 

 

 
Pectoral Sandpipers, Serpentine, Cley, 12th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  Present since last night, an unusual date and an unusual two together.
 

 
Little Terns, Cley, 6th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Icterine Warbler, the Hood, Blakeney Point, 5th June 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Common Swift, Cley, 2nd June 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 

 
White-spotted Bluethroat, East Bank, Cley, 1st June 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Short-toed Lark, the Marrams, Blakeney Point, 31st May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Wryneck, Halfway House, Blakeney Point, 31st May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Spotted Flycatcher, Beach Road cattle pens, Cley, 31st May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 

 
Red-backed Shrike, Cley, 29th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Swallow, Cley, 26th May 2013 (Sue Gantlett). 
 

 
Pectoral Sandpiper, Serpentine, Cley, 24th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Snow Goose with Greylag Goose, Cley, 24th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  A new arrival on Pope's Marsh this afternoon. It then flew off west.
 

 
Redshank chicks, Serpentine, Cley, 24th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett).
 

 
Red-backed Shrike, Cley, 22nd May 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  A new arrival beside the West Bank this afternoon.
 

 
Wood Sandpiper, Serpentine, Cley, 21st May 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  Also a distant Pectoral Sandpiper new on North Scrape this afternoon, but still very few other waders.
 

 
Blackbird, Walsey Hills, Cley, 19th May 2013 (Sue Gantlett).  This dreadful spring: this Blackbird was desperate for some mealworms.
 

 
Red-spotted Bluethroat, Blakeney Point, 18th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Whinchat, Cley, 15th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Greenshank and Redshank, Cley, 14th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Little Ringed Plover, Cley, 13th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Spotted Flycatcher, Kelling Water Meadow, 8th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett). 
 

 
Curlew Sandpiper, Cley, 7th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  And at last some waders have arrived on the scrapes this afternoon: this, four (distant) Temminck's Stints, four Spotted Redshanks, about 50 Dunlin and about 30 Tundra Ringed Plovers.
 

 
Greenshank, Cley, 7th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  A bit closer today, briefly.
 

 
Greenshank, Cley, 5th May 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  Still almost no passage waders on the scrapes, but two Greenshanks have been lingering for a few days.
 

 
Ruff, Cley, 1st May 2013 (Steve Gantlett).  There have been almost no passage waders on the scrapes so far this spring: just two Ruff today.
 

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