Leader: Steve Chapman
Reporters: Stuart and Marion Malone
Species List: David Laurie

​Pre-meeting travel arrangements worked well and an enthusiastic group of 14 souls set off eastwards in cool, unexpectedly overcast conditions. Unbeknown to the group a very special day lay ahead. Within 200m many sightings were observed, giving David Laurie the hard task of recording them as they were rapidly called out.

Leader and Reporter: Chris Stone

6 Wensum valley members including myself met in the car park at 8.30 am on a damp windy morning.
I told them the plan for the day and that our target was 80 species for the day - a high target but that was the challenge. We walked through the picnic area as the rain was getting harder, and through to the visitor’s centre.

​Leader: Francis Farrow
Coordinator: Cath Robinson
Reporters: Don Pearson & Cath Robinson (Cley)
Photographs: Bryony Pearson
Species List: Liz Gibson & Cath Robinson (Cley)

The visit was hosted by Francis Farrow, the warden, whose knowledge of the Common goes back a good many years and provided so much information on the fauna & flora. There is so much to this Common which covers 63 acres, including the adjacent Sheringham Common, and which hosts more than 20 varieties of butterfly alone including a White Admiral seen the previous week. The site is an SSSI and also incorporates Special Areas of Conservation.

Leader and Reporter: Nick Edwards

A new venue for the WVBS Nightjar evening – Broadland Country Park was the place for our Nightjar quest. We met just before 9pm just off Haveringland Road.

Coordinator: Mary Walker
Reporter: Keith Walker
Species List: David Laurie

Our group of eighteen were greeted at Wheatfen by warden Will Fitch and his trainee Felix who kindly escorted us for two hours round a small part of this 52 Hectare Nature Reserve. The weather was kind having cooled from the heat of the previous days and we were blessed with warm and mainly sunny conditions.