The Scillies tour, hospital appointments and visits to my daughter aside I today had chance to visit the Steppe Grey Shrike in North Norfolk; and what a cracker it is. Initially distant after an offering of a few meal worms it gave itself up in grand style. The last one I saw a few years ago in Lincolnshire was also very confiding. Given it’s probably the first time it has been in the company of humans it knew no fear.
Letter From Norfolk 