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Red-backed Shrike, male. Sutton Park NNR, West Midlands. DSC_2148.jpg

Fantastic to see this beautiful little bird. Incredibly confiding, given a bit of space to do it's thing. A privilege to just be able to sit and watch it so closely; and to see it at close quarters take prey that it had caught, across to its larder in an adjacent Hawthorn tree and impale it on a thorn, living up to its nickname 'the butcher bird'.

 

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Uploaded on September 13, 2020
Taken on September 13, 2020