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by TomMckinney on February 1, 2011 · 2 comments

in Birding Western Palearctic

No. This just cannot be! No! It’s happened again! Another sensational vagrant bird slips through the fingers of the British twitchers. And this time it’s belated news of an Oriental Turtle Dove, present in a garden in Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire in December 2010. News HERE

Dear Santa,

Can you please give us a bird that isn’t of dubious origin, dubious identification, dead, or hiding in a non-birder’s garden. If you do then we promise to be really really good and help the sick and needy.

Thanks,

The British Birding Community

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Tom McKinney has been birding for over 20 years and has birded on every continent, other than the continents he's not yet been to. He is famed for having found Britain's first Gray's Grasshopper Warbler and then waking up and realising it had all been a beautiful, beautiful dream. When not birding he enjoys going to Ladbrokes and writing short biographical entries about himself in a 3rd person voice.

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  • Birdernaturalist

    Oh, Tom, that’s maddening. But it’s not as bad as the Nutting’s Flycatcher a couple years ago that birders saw, heard, photographed, and got video of, knowing it might be something good. And then plum forgot about it. FORGOT? Finally remembered, got someone to look at their video over 2 months later. Fourth US record, and long gone.

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