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Tuesday 17 August 2010

Lesser Grey Shrike at Kelling

A look round East Runton early afternoon produced little migrant wise but a Painted Lady brightened up the walk.

News then broke of a Lesser Grey Shrike at Kelling, and with it being a new bird for me for the Cley 10km Square, which was my former patch and a list that I still actively keep, I made my way along the coast road and was soon watching it feeding from the top of fenceposts just inland of the shingle ridge towards Salthouse. With the last one in the square being in 1976 it was a new patch bird for most of the locals so was very welcome indeed, especially as it was in such fine plumage.