Whixall Floods - Red backed Shrike

Shropshire lifers don't come along easily nowadays, I'm averaging one every year recently (apart from 2021) No complaints at all really but this Red-backed Shrike was either too distant or too wet and bedraggled to celebrate with images!

Here's the distant selection in the dry!

Even managed to not include the prey just eaten!

As close as it came in the 'favoured field'...

As the afternoon wore on, drizzle turned to proper rain and fair to say the Shrike (which finally perched close by) was not sitting pretty!

I hate white sky but I suppose these 'damp pics' are interesting for artistic appeal?

You can only play with the hand you are dealt :-) But what the heck, Shropshire bird number 239 is all that matters