Cley – 7th August 2013 a summer walk around NWT Cley Marshes, taking in the sights and sounds of a soporific August day. More articles in this series can be found here. It’s been a successful breeding season for the birds of Cley. During June and July the scrapes were alive with Avocet chicks. Everywhere…
Cley – 15th May 2013 – Spring is often interrupted by a brief return to colder, inhospitable weather on the North Norfolk coast. Wildlife seems to take this anomaly in its stride, but for us fragile humans it can be frustrating. More articles in this series can be found here. Just as you think things…
Another walk around the Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve at Cley – 27th March 2013. It is an ever changing scene on this stretch of coast at this time of year, but despite the best efforts of winter to extend its season, nature will, as always, plough on regardless. Other articles in this series can be…
Cley Marshes 1st May 2013: a continuation of the weekly account of my volunteering duties at the NWT reserve a few years ago. One interesting aspect of visiting a place every week is that you get a real sense of how things change as a season progresses. It is sometimes quite surprising the difference a…
Cley Marshes 7 years ago to the day, would find me walking around the NWT reserve on my weekly volunteering duty. I wrote about it for the NWT blog and reproduce it here. In these days of frustrating confinement, it provides a flavour of what we are missing. We can, of course, take comfort from…
Memories of April 2013, when I used to write a weekly blog post for Norfolk Wildlife Trust highlighting the seasonal wildlife to be found at Cley Marshes. This post is from Easter 2013 – early April – when the reserve was at the mercy of biting easterlies. Other archive articles can be found here. Another…