Red-Backed Shrike at Climping

Bola Akinola was good enough to tweet out the presence of a Red-Backed Shrike in the horse paddocks at Climping on Sunday and on Bank Holiday Monday I managed to get down there for a look. I bumped into John Dodd and after a while we found the bird...for about 30 seconds before the heavens opened and it went to ground. Drenched, I nipped back home for a change of clothes and to do a bit of work until the weather improved which it did early afternoon. Back on site I then met Jake Everitt who had the bird in view, handy! It sat out on the hedge by the rusty paddock gate for a good while occasionally catching beetles & dragonflies.


Red-Backed Shrike:

Also present in the field at the rear, twenty plus Ringed Plovers & two Dunlin.