Cley Calling

A nationwide survey to assess the health of our environment. Collecting your recording sheet from reception and submit your results online.

North Norfolk is a butterfly hotspot. On this relaxed ramble in search of butterflies on the reserve, Patrick Barkham will share his best butterflying tips and infectious love for these insects. Patrick is Natural History Writer for the Guardian and an award-winning author of The Butterfly Isles.

In this illustrated talk Patrick recalls the pleasure – and pain – of trying to find all 59 species of British butterfly in one summer.

I lost nature – and then I got it back. As a result I have written millions of words trying to help everyone else get it back. Which is why I wrote Rewild Yourself. We’re losing the wild world, sure, but we’re also losing our ability to notice it: to see it, hear it, smell it. It’s not like a museum, it’s like New York New York – you want ...

I lost nature – and then I got it back. As a result I have written millions of words trying to help everyone else get it back. Which is why I wrote Rewild Yourself. We’re losing the wild world, sure, but we’re also losing our ability to notice it: to see it, hear it, smell it. So join NWT Wildlife Evangelist, Nick Acheson and me on a walk and rewild yoursel...

I was viewing a house when I heard a Cetti’s warbler in the garden. “We’ll take it!” An exaggeration but not by much. As a result we live alongside eight acres of Norfolk marsh, all for the wildness of it. It’s become a family thing, especially one I share with my younger son Eddie, who has Down’s syndrome. I wrote a book about a year in t...

Workshop led by Paul Richards with a theory session covering the essentials of good nature photography followed by time on the reserve practising techniques to improve your landscape, abstract nature, wildlife and close-up photography. Note: please bring your own equipment.

A guided walk around the reserve and along the shingle ridge. Approximately 3.5 miles.

A songwriter and guitarist whose music is rich with visual imagery and written with an eco-eye. Her debut album covers themes such as rewilding, migration, and woman’s historical relationship with textiles and the land.

Led by county recorder, Andy Brazil, with a morning of classroom tuition and an afternoon of practical fieldwork. No less than 27 species can be seen in and around the reserve. You'll learn how to identify them, where they are and when to see them.