Lesser Grey Shrike

Continuing with our twitching spree, we went for the Lesser Grey Shrike at Hickling, spurred on mainly by the fact that Connor saw the one at Holkham. It was a very long journey, not aided by a record low in Simeon's navigational skills! On arrival only a few cars were there, and we were surprised to see such a small amount of money in the bucket - presumably we were amongst the minority in not having seen the Holkham bird. Besides getting lost on the journey we also got lost at the site, but used our expert tracking skills to locate the bird (where there's a Lesser Grey Shrike there's twitchers, and where there's twitchers there's footprints. Genius!). It was showing well but distantly, so we had to use the 'eye of faith' to make out the pinkish hue. A very nice bird, though somehow lacking the thrill that most twitches bring. On the other hand, it was another tick and we had clawed back one more from Connor...