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| Looking across the salt marshes to the sea.NWT Cley Marshes is Norfolk Wildlife Trustââ¬â¢s oldest and best known nature reserve. It was purchased in 1926 to be held `in perpetuity as a bird breeding sanctuary`. It provided a blue print for nature conservation which has now been replicated across the UK. The water levels in the pools and reedbeds are regulated to ensure they are ideal for the resident birds, and reed is harvested every year to keep the reedbeds in good condition. The shingle beach and saline lagoons, along with the grazing marsh and reedbed support large numbers of wintering and migrating wildfowl and waders, as well as bittern, marsh harrier and bearded tit. |
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