Notes on birds/wildlife from a nature enthusiast & photographer (copyright Peter Ransome)
Sunday, 31 August 2025
Shrike at Easton Bavents
On Thursday 28th August Brian S. had found a RBS at Easton Bavents so straight after work, I drove there with ominous gun metal clouds assembling for a potentially stormy period over Lowestoft, but as I parked up at North Road, the sun dispersed all the clouds and I walked to the Bavents looking west from the sheep pens but couldn't initially see the Shrike but the sun was extremely bright shining directly from the direction I was looking into, so I trversed to the North side of the Bavents and took the path running west past a turnstyle and an area where I had previously seen an RBF, I rang Jane F. as she had seen the bird but I couldn't find the daed Elder, but as I spoke to Jane, I suddenly spotted what was almost certainly the bird perched in a bush directly looking south towards Southwold and it was a dead Elder! Scoping the bird it was a fine immature/ 1st winter Red- backed Shrike and it spend most of its time perched up just making 3 sorties during the period of observation, on one of it's sorties I walked back to the start of the Bavents and soon picked the bird up again in the bush. Too far away to photo for me. Later I tried Quay Lane/ Reydon Marshes for Whinchats but probably didn't look in the right areas as I didn't see any.
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