25th July
A Long-tailed shrike in Gloucester eventually tempted us out for a day trip. We invited Sean along, David picking him up before driving to me where we changed cars and left around 10.30am and I drove to the site, near Swindon. Because of hold ups on the M25 we took the M3 and then the A332 up to the M4before exiting just before Swindon and heading to the site in the middle of a lot of farm land.
There was a car park system set up, so we parked, paid our £5 and then walked along the road to a path through a stone wall which took us two fields in to where the shrike was being watched by a smallish group, hunting in a bramble bush a hundred meters or so away. The light wasn’t brilliant until I moved back along the wall where the angle seemed better.
We spent some time watching it and then it was time to return. We followed the Satnav a slightly different route back heading for the M40, where we had around 50 Red Kites, and back to the M25. We stopped at Cobham services for something to eat before making it home, still in daylight. A very pleasant day out.
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