10th Oct - mostly cloudy, sunny spells pm, light NW, 15C

 Willey;

Several Song Thrushes and Blackbirds eating Holly berries, but no Redwings yet.

Two, may Three Chiffchaff's in Church Yews and Church lane hedge, plus 6 Greenfinches.

Great Spotted Woodpecker around.

9th Oct - flat cloud, light SW, 15C

 No Obs today

8th Oct - mostly high cloud, breaking pm, light W-NW, 14C

Stanford res; afternoon.

Another stake-out for the Bittern, but no luck.  Two were seen today, which is quite incredible.

13 Little Egrets, a Great White Egret and several Grey Herons.  A Snipe appeared on the reed bed edge.

Water Rail was heard in the Northants reed bed.

Several lapwings were on the floating weed bed, later c60 flew over and landed on the adjacent arable field.

Still good numbers of Teal, Shoveler and Cormorants.

7th Oct - sunny spells, light SW, 14C

Willey; Red Admiral and Speckled Wood seen today.

This morning c50 Stock Doves were feeding in the Barn field were the cattle had been fed.

Shawell Sandpit/landfill; early evening

A check here but there was nothing new and no further sighting of the Ferruginous Duck that cal had on the 1st Oct.

6th )ct - sunny light-mod SW, 19C

Wells harbour; morning

A morning watch here produced a Red-throated Diver and two Great Crested Grebes in the main channel, plus all the normal Waders, Brent Geese, with Pink-feet over and a few seals on the sand bank enjoying the sunshine for a change.

Snettisham Beach

 Had decent views of the Great Short-toed Lark that has been here a few days now.  Busy in the vegetation and showing at times in the clear pebble patches.

5th Oct - mod-fresh breeze W, 15C, sunny spells

Wells Harbour; early morning

All the expected waders and Geese were on view as the tide receded.

Cley Sea watch

a little less windy, more importantly wind moved more W/NW.  More Gannets and Guillemots, most were too far out. A Red-throated Diver quite close in.

Morston; afternoon

juv red-backed Shrike showed well at times.  A male Stonechat too and some super fungi nearby, plus a single Wall butterfly seen.

North Point Pools

A Greenshank over, c 20 Egyptian Geese and two raven over were notable.  Plus the regular Ducks and Geese.

4th Oct - again strong-gusty WSW, a few short showers, cloudy, 13C

Norfolk - another unfavourable weather day in the Wells-Cley area making it challenging to find birds.

Kelling Water Meadows did not produce too much, although distant passerines occasionally rose from the vegetation, who knows what was among the Linnets!

Cley NWT; a few Pink-footed Geese were around, a hunting Marsh Harrier, plenty Black-tailed Godwits, but few other waders.  Sea-watching was again a waste of time.

North Point Pools; held five Spoonbills today, three Cattle Egrets and two marsh harriers.  One a juv/female the other a male.

Wells Harbour area; the tide was in, but there were areas where roosting birds could be seen, including Turnstones, Oystercatchers, Bar-tailed Godwits and Dunlin.  A flock of  50+ Sandwich Terns flew in to the lower harbour area before leaving and heading off west.  A few Brent Geese were present.