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Alan Boddington

@alanbodd

Former coal - miner from Nuneaton now living in Barnacle,Warks.Member of the Brandon Marsh conservation team.Keen birder in the Warwickshire and Midlands area.

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Joined August 2013
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Only my 2nd Franklin’s Gull this morning , showing constantly at Winchester, Hampshire.
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Started a day out at Spurn,East Yorks. today with record shots of the Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler and finished with a Desert Wheatear. In between good views of Little Bunting, Olive-Backed Pipit, Pallas’s Warbler and Long -Eared Owl.
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Oops. Forgot to mention the Greater Short-Toed Lark half way to Spurn lighthouse.
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Nice addition to my Brandon Marsh, Warks. year list this morning with this 1st winter Mediterranean Gull on east marsh.
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What a bird. Nutcracker showing incredibly well at Mundesley, Norfolk this morning, and a bonus Desert Wheatear from 10 feet at Cley.
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4 year tick day out with the presumed Isabelline Shrike at Kessingland, Rosy Starling at Happisburgh, Water Pipit at Cley & Baikal Teal in the dying light at Needingworh, Cambs. on the way home.
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Some poor shots of two lifers in 3 days. American Pipit at Clifford Hill G.Pits, Northants today & Ross’s Goose at Heysham, Lancashire on Sunday.
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Jack Snipe showing very well at Carlton hide, Brandon Marsh, Warks. this morning.
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Life ticked Sykes’s Warbler today at Girdle Ness, Aberdeenshire before catching the ferry to Shetland.
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Lovely morning on the south coast today at Keyhaven Marshes,Hampshire for the best views I’ve ever had of Semipalmated Sandpiper & it’s Little Stint friend.
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Set off for Cheshire early this morning hoping the Baird’s Sandpiper would still be at Burleydam Pool, Coxbank. It was. Then on to Wallasey for the steady stream of Leach’s Storm Petrel.
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The third Whinchat of the year this morning on my local patch at Barnacle, Warks.
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Two Buff-Breasted Sandpiper 3 miles from our digs this evening at Sennen, Cornwall were just too hard to resist.
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Juvenile Red-Backed Shrike at Polgigga, Cornwall this morning.
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Couple of nice migrants today at Pendeen,Cornwall with a year tick Wryneck & a confiding Northern Wheatear.
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Better views of the Icterine Warbler in its favoured buddleia bush for the second day in the Kenidjack Valley, Cornwall this afternoon.
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Superb views of two Ortorlan Bunting at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan today with a bonus Grey Phalarope at nearby Lisvane Reservoir.
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Too friendly for me, but amazing views of the juvenile Red-Footed Falcon at Lowestoft, Suffolk. this lunchtime.
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A quick trip to Draycote Water,Warks. this afternoon for this Little Stint, reported earlier by @bobhazell
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Finally got over to Kingsbury Water Park, Warks. this morning for the very confiding juvenile Red-Necked Phalarope. Little Gull also showing well, within a few metres.
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