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This is a photo of the windmill in Cley Next the Sea, in Norfolk, England. It is built of red brick, with attractive white cap, sails, three window frames, and a railed balcony that girdles the mill just below mid-height. The sky is a cloudy blue-grey, which contrasts with the sun shining on this pocket of land. Located on a quayside, and on the left of the frame and surrounded by grass, the mill breaks the horizon line that runs through the middle of the image. Beside it, and on the street behind, are historical residential buildings - some with the traditional cobbled, flint rock walls. Tall mature trees can be seen above rooftops in the background. There is a small car park on this quayside–with a handful of cars–beside the mill, and in front of green ivy-covered walls that separate it from the street of houses. This view of the mill is from across the marsh where most of the dried, straw-colored rushes used for thatching roofs, have already been harvested, save for a clump on the left. Like a bad haircut, sun-bleached left-over rushes stick up from–or lay–on the muddy-brown marsh, which takes up the whole lower half of the image. At the far edge of the marsh–just below the mill–we see the top of a dark void indicating the water channel of the River Glaven which separates the marsh from the quayside. Once a busy port, Cley Next the Sea is no longer ‘-Next the Sea’. The small town is now about a mile and a half from the coast. The land having been reclaimed, the vast swaths of salt-water marsh between Cley and the next village of Salthouse, and the sea, are internationally recognized as an important breeding habitat to the resident and visiting wildfowl, and have been protected since 1926.
A #Norfolk #England view for Friday’s #Scape day
#windmill #bluesky #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #Cley #harvest #marshland #NationalWildlifeTrust #wildfowl #wildlifehabitat
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Flock of dark-bellied brent geese with a possible interloper in the top line, second from left. The unusual bird has a thicker-set white head. It also has obvious white flashes on the wings and a suggestion of a lighter upper forward wing.
Noting report of a possible blue-morph snow goose at #Cley (via cleybirdclub.org.uk/list-sightin... ), I saw the bird at Cley and had coincidentally photo'd it with my phone when it flew over the marsh nr Blakeney (2nd from left, top row). I'm no expert, but thought worth sharing if it helps id.
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Six Dark-Bellied Brent geese fly in formation over a muddy tidal creek.
A very special end to a lovely holiday as a #glossyibis flew straight past me at #NWT #Cley Marshes reserve whilst I saw in the middle of the three central hides. It came in low from the west and was heading SE towards Pat's Pool when it was lost from view. #Norfolkbirding
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Skein of dark-bellied Brent geese strung out across the blue morning sky. Whispy cirrus clouds are in the background.
You only live twite! A beach walk from #Cley to #Salthouse and back was rewarded with a small, but confiding flock of #Twite. Cherries on a cake that included hundreds more geese (DBB are quickly becoming my faves), and a barn owl first thing. #norfolkbirding
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Wonderful start to our first day in #Cley, with the sight of hundreds of geese squeaking like giant feathered balloons through the sky. #winter #geese
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Cow parsley silhouette handpainted onto light blue glass. Surrounded by panels of blue glass from iridescent deep blue to turquoise. The panel is held up to the sun against a brigbt blue sky.
Cow Parsley hanging!
Find us at Cley Village Hall, Norfolk, Sat 6th Dec, 10am-4pm
#cley #norfolk #cleynext-the-sea #eastanglia #norfolkmakers #designermaker #unique #handmadegift #norfolkcrafts #norfolkcraftfairs #handpainted #kilnfired #traditionalcrafts #glassartist #glass #art
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View of a low winter sun behind a windmill next to a small dredged river.
The windmill on the marsh. Winter is a truly beautiful season in many parts of the UK, including here at Cley-next-the-Sea. The sky is big and the air is clean and crisp.
#Cley #Cleymarshes #Norfolk #coast #winter
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Cley Beach on the north Norfolk coast, part of the Blakeney Point–Cley shingle ridge - one of the largest & most dynamic in England, shaped by storms & longshore drift, it protects the freshwater marshes behind #Cley #aerial #image #Norfolk #Coast
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Blue skies and northerly winds for annual autumnal pilgrimage to Norfolk #norfolkbirds Some good seawatching at #holme, good variety at @rspbtitchwellsnett.bsky.social and #cley YLgull, crossbills, Common scoter in large numbers the highlights . First visit to #gibraltorpoint in many years
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Spent the morning wandering the beach & pools around the marsh and beyond on the off-chance of a Grey Phalarope. No joy on the Phal-front but some wonderful waves smashing into the shingle. Love that roar!
#cley
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Cley sky tonight as the sun began to set ~ ominous & beautiful all in one...
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#cley
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Ruddy Shelduck
Velvet Scoter
Knew it was gonna be a good week cos first bird I raised my bins to was Ruddy Shelduck... with a Velvet Scoter not long after.
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#Cley #NorfolkBirding #Wildfowl #elite 💯🦆
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Nice to find a #SnowBunting on #Cley beach this morning. An unusually mobile and flighty bird as it was chasing and catching flies #NorfolkBirding
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A view across a salt marsh with vivid green and red-brown coloured vegetation, below a blue sky.
Salthouse marshes yesterday. Enjoyed a trip around the Cley and Salthouse nature reserve, managed by the #NorfolkWildlifeTrust. Many migrating birds starting to arrive.
#Norfolk #Cley #NWT
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On the lower edge of a shingle beach with gentle lapping waves and electric blue sky
What a glorious long summer; I’m fortunate to be able to make the most of it. The north Norfolk beaches are so packed I don’t know where to sit 🙄.
#summer #coastalwalking #Norfolk #Cley #breatheintheair
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Sunday book review: Nature Changing by David North
Publisher: Mascot Media
Review: markavery.info/2025/08/31/s...
'...the most gorgeous book I've read this year'
#cley #norfolk #naturewriting @norfolknats.bsky.social @norfolkbea.bsky.social @cleyspy.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social
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Nice to be back at #cley with family @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social good variety of waders along with 6 spoonbills and a very obliging hobby sat on the grassland #Norfolkbirding
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Spent a lovely afternoon @NorfolkWT #Cley with @sarahpettegree.bsky.social.
We spent a lot of time watching this snipe fossicking in the muddy shallows.
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Cley windmill
Cley windmill
Cley windmill details for a stay
Cley windmill
Cley windmill, Norfolk #norfolk #cley #windmills #photography
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