Brown Shrike OMFL!!

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Above: Two record shots of the
Brown Shrike at Staines Moor.

Twitchers at the Brown Shrike!


On Tuesday following info the previous day, that a Red-backed Shrike had been re-id as a 1st winter Brown Shrike at Staines Moor, near Heathrow, West London.
So following news via my Birdnet pager it took me a couple of hours to drive to the site after leaving Leicester around 9.30am.
Arriving at the moor, it was only a matter of time until I finally saw the Brown Shrike in the nearby hawthorn bushes. Over the next hour or so, I watched the shrike as it flew around the nearby bushes and as usual I took a few record shots of the Shrike.
Happy with seeing the Shrike and it firmly on my tick list I drove home with no hold up on the motorways except for a couple of Tw*ts in a BMW and White Van Man driving like arseholes!!

Comments

Skev said…
Hopefully that short-winged bugger will still be there tomorrow morning when I am.
13 October 2009 at 20:52
Anonymous said…
Hope you get 'it' Mark...we were mildly 'shitting it' after last nights clear skies....

Beast......
13 October 2009 at 21:53
Skev said…
Still there at dusk, can but try. Even dipping beats working .... hmmm, maybe not.
13 October 2009 at 23:54
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