Lots of Siskins at Cross Inn Forest this morning,maybe 50.Also, a Peregrine low down in overdrive, a singing Willow Tit and a couple of male Crossbills,one of which dropped a cone on my head from just 15 feet above me.
All seemed good so I marched back to the car. A flurry of Siskins at the top of a tallish tree caught my eye. I looked up and the Great Grey Shrike flew off. The Siskins must have been mobbing it? Unfortuneately it quickly disappeared from view and further searching and scanning failed to relocate it.
Shrike grid ref 563652 at the western edge of the forest