Woodchat Shrike on Gower
But no. Thursday saw further reports so Friday evening I was back. This time I had a definite location to search so I staked out a vigil for the next hour or so in the hope that I would be rewarded. I was briefly joined by a few birders from the 'Birders in Boxers' blog who were having no better luck and continued further on across the downs. I was now caught in one of those awkward situations. I needed to get back home but I could almost guarantee that the moment I left the Shrike would be out and the others would get to see it. Despite my fears I left and as predicted the Shrike put in an appearance not long after.
Determined not to be beaten I was back by Saturday lunchtime and as fate would have it almost immediately caught a sighting on the telegraph wires at the exact same location that I had been staking out the night before. The Shrike sat in full view for a good ten minutes allowing a couple of distant photographs before flying off into some nearby gorse and being lost from view. Over the next half an hour I got just the occasional glimpse which probably explains the difficulty that people have been having in their searches. The day was topped off nicely with a male Siberian Stonechat, another first for me.
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