Cley Calling

Learn about the fascinating lives and behaviours of moths. You will have the rare opportunity to see these incredible night flyers up close as we open our moth traps from the previous night.

A two-day workshop to create your own pinhole cameras, and turn one of our hides into a giant pinhole camera. You will then have the chance to create an exhibition of photos taken from the giant camera. On Friday the giant pinhole camera will be open for the public to view.

A guided circuit walk around the reserve and along the shingle ridge taking in the history, wildlife and habitats of the North Norfolk coast along the way. The walk is approximately 2.5 miles.

Talking about her latest book Eye of the Shoal Helen Scales unhitches fish from their reputation as slimy, simple-minded creatures and reveals their mesmerising and complex lives. She hopes to convince as many people as possible to become fishwatchers, whether you put on a pair of wellies and visit a beach at low tide, peer into ponds and rivers, or jump right in. Helen&rsqu...

Amelia Mills is an abstract artist based on the North Norfolk coast. Inspired by the sea and the importance of marine conservation, she creates beautiful works that capture the vibrant colours and dynamic movements of the oceans. She paints primarily using artist resin mixed with acrylics and pours and manipulates the medium on wooden panels she makes herself.

A two-day workshop to create your own pinhole cameras, and turn one of our hides into a giant pinhole camera. You will then have the chance to create an exhibition of photos taken from the giant camera. On Friday the giant pinhole camera will be open for the public to view.

Join us to celebrate all things bee with a day of crafts, activities and local organisations as we pay homage to these beautiful and vital characters of the insect world.

This workshop, run by Nick Owens, will be an introduction to the identification of ‘solitary’ bees (bees other than bumblebees and honeybees). It will involve indoor work using microscopes and keys, and fieldwork looking at bees around the reserve. There will be an illustrated introduction to some of Norfolk’s solitary bees, and we will use the keys in Stev...

John Hinton has written a song about science for each letter of the alphabet. And, just to make it more difficult for himself, he will perform each of them either in a genre, or on an instrument, starting with the same letter. So he will perform an acapella atom song, some Big Bang body percussion, a Cell Calypso, a drum’n’bass DNA tune, and so on. You can expect...

Help us to clean up our shore to benefit coastal wildlife. There is always lots of exciting wildlife and mysterious marine objects to be found on the shore too. In the event of adverse weather please contact the visitor centre in advance to check for cancellations. All equipment provided.