Wednesday, 4 March 2026

GREAT GREY SHRIKE

Around 3.30pm Jill and I were approaching the road-bridge on the Powys side of Llyn Brianne at its most narrow and northerly point, when the shrike flew out of a bushy tree beside the road just infront of us and flew across the water to the Ceredigion side. From there, after a while, it was seen tucked away in a clump of waterside deciduous trees, again only a little down-stream of the bridge. After some minutes it simply disappeared.  Nearby were 18 Teal.       My digi-scoping effort: