03/07/2023 Spurn, East Yorkshire

Red-baked Shrike: After having a week with just the baby and I while Dawn was away, I was unable to twitch the great snipe that has been showing well over the past few days.

I lived in hope it would reappear over the weekend and woke up to positive news of the bird.

So, I picked up Kris and set to with good time, although upon arriving we soon learned that the bird was only seen due to an un-organised flush, and the bird was kicked up before disappearing again. This behaviour happened once more in the evening but this time the bird was flushed out on to the salt marsh and never seen again

 

Disappointed we made the most of our trip and even walked to the point where we got some brief views of an Ictarine warbler found by Neil Hunt. 

But the stand out bird was this stellar male red-backed shrike which was picked up along Clubley's Field and remained throughout the day, happily un-harassed.