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Boyton Marshes
Welcome one and all to the Boyton Marshes group. Boyton is a small but perfectly formed wet grassland site on the serene Suffolk Coast. The reserve is situated in a fantastically scenic location where the Butley river meets the Alde/Ore Estuary.
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Boyton Marshes
A Difficult Spring
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Boyton, like most of our coastal wetland reserves has had more than its fair share of rain over the last two months. The breeding birds at Boyton have found it difficult it rear any young due to the cold and difficult weather. However, there has been...
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Winter wonderland
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Winter is the time of the year that Boyton is truly left to its avian inhabitants. With the onset of winter the farmer starts to take off this Hereford cattle and we start increasing the water levels on the fields. By pushing the water up it floods the...
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A tall story
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7 months ago
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Ian Barthorpe
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Until this week, if anyone had told me that I would see a sandhill crane in the UK I'd never have believed them. OK, so there were three previous UK records, but these were predictably in the far flung corners - Orkney and Shetland, plus a record...
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Summer update:
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Sadly, I have not had the time to write much about Boyton marshes of late but that doesn’t mean its not worth a visit. There are at least 12 pairs of avocets nesting on the summer flash with astonishing numbers of chicks around. It must...
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Concerning Grove Marshes
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Kieren
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Whilst this blog post isn’t strictly about Boyton marshes it does concern Grove marshes our other lowland wet grassland site just down the coast. For those have not visited the site and in fairness not many do, it is around 83 hectares in size...
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Boyton’s military history.
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Old man of Minsmere aka John Richardson
Sedge Warbler singing his heart out
sedge warbler
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24 Apr 2012
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Sedge Warbler
This noisy little fella and very camera shy, I waited for a hour for him to come out of the middle of...
sedge warbler
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24 Apr 2012
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Fiona the Flamingo behaving like a duck
She was feeding that a duck
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10 Mar 2012
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Fiona the Flamingo
On Boyton Marshes
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Little Egret
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Reed Bunting
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10 Mar 2012
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Greenland White Front Goose
All on its own
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10 Mar 2012
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Curlews flying on River at Boyton
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14 Jan 2012
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Barn Owl Boyton
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14 Jan 2012
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Barn Owl
preparing to drop at Boyton
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14 Jan 2012
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