Join us as we celebrate our 100th anniversary and 100 years of wildlife. We’re aiming to spot 100 different species in a single day, and we need your help! Explore the reserve with a youth-led nature walk and get creative with drop-in activities. Everyone welcome - enjoy free entry to the reserve for everyone taking […]
Acclaimed singer–songwriters M G Boulter and Samantha Whates join us to perform Flower Days, their forthcoming folk collaboration, with music inspired by flowers and their cultural significance throughout history. Recorded at the historic Cambo Estate in Fife with producer Douglas Whates, the project blends experimental textures with the duo’s distinctive songwriting. Boulter, hailed as a […]
Call notes and songs are often the best way to recognise birds. Join David North on a walk through Cley's varied habitats and discover how to tell a singing reed warbler from a sedge warbler. Listen to the wild voices of lapwings and redshanks and enjoy a world of bird sounds on a walk around […]
Full-day historical workshop with Anne Mason: explore East Anglia’s landscapes using maps, photos, and archives to uncover their history. Our landscapes ‘tell the story’ of how they have been managed in the past. Learn how to recognise and interpret the features that are the clues to its history. The morning session will make use of […]
This exhibit shares the unexpected beauty of the Norfolk saltmarsh: its colour and form through the seasons, and the diversity of life connected with it. The saltmarsh is an increasingly rare ecosystem, fragile in the face of rising sea levels due to the climate crisis. This exhibition is an attempt to inspire the love and […]
Raptors, or ‘birds of prey’ are one of the most charismatic and exciting groups of birds. Ten species have bred in recent years in Norfolk, with another four regular winter visitors and another 3 scarce but regular migrants, it is an exciting county to see these birds. This workshop will look at the past history […]
The talk by Annie Green-Armytage will cover the Norfolk saltmarsh and its inhabitants: its unexpected beauty, and its changing face through the seasons. It explores what this fragile ecosystem is and all it does for us, human and nonhuman, including Annie's own experience of its healing power as a natural landscape. It will also look […]
Three day course - Tuesdays 14, 28 July and 11 August: 10.30am - 3.30pm. Be inspired to write by what you find in the local landscape. Sessions will include a walk and the opportunity to write outside. You will also be offered the chance to join in a reading event and a display of a […]
Three day course - Tuesdays 14, 28 July and 11 August: 10.30am - 3.30pm. Be inspired to write by what you find in the local landscape. Sessions will include a walk and the opportunity to write outside. You will also be offered the chance to join in a reading event and a display of a […]
Inspired by the wonder of the natural world, 'The Music of Trees' weaves together storytelling, woodland folklore and mythology with a suite of original compositions featuring Geoff's signature blend of classical, jazz, Celtic and Spanish influences. A master of the acoustic guitar with an intricate, richly harmonic style, Geoff has performed to audiences at venues […]
To celebrate marine week, take a closer look at the ocean with us, this session will involve creating your own plankton net, sea dipping with us and looking at the incredible microscopic wildlife with our guest plankton expert Elizabeth under a microscope. This session is for older children 7yrs and over. Please note parents will […]
