Back to the Winterton Lesser Grey

On Wednesday 24th September, leaving off work at 2.20pm, I went back to Winterton for a second visit to the Shrike this time with plenty of sunshine. As I parked up Mark and his wife drew up behind and we walked up to the Toad pools together, witnessing a family of Stonechats, an adult male and 1 youngster seen in bushes just north of the Totem Pole. A line of 4 people by the posts heralded the rough location of the fine Lesser Grey Shrike, this time perched on a bush. But by the time we reached them the Shrike was on the posts and then spent plenty of time hunting from a bush behind the posts where it caught several insects including a beetle. later on it even coughed up a pellet. It then flew south and behind, before it flew to a bush just north. I was able to sneak up to it using several bushes as cover and it spent some time perched in this bush before eventually flying west right by the western most track. Later it returned to the same bush for around 30 minutes where again I went back using the bushes as cover and I was able to get several pictures, most of which are pictured here. It spent some time hunting from this bush flying down to the ground often catching beetles and Odonata.