great grey shrike lanius excubitor

Spring-Summer - 304 A big Shrike that breeds in our area Watch one of them catch a locust ... impale it on an Acacia thorn ... and finish the meal at ease ... Link : http://birdforum.tv/members/action/viewvideo/7069/Southern_Grey_Shrike/ ___________ Southern Grey Shrike ( Lanius...

With a strong head-on wind, this Shrike was trying to maintain it's balance as low as was possible.

Spring-Summer - 209 ... A wonderful largish Shrike ... A resident breeder It was overcast ... and the bird flew away to sit at this lovely though distant perch ... ... needing all of 800 mm to get this near full-framer ... ... looking for morning snack ... Another species with plenty of...

flowers on wild trees, lots of butteries and those beautiful visitors. i don't get to enjoy shrikes in my garden at this time of the year, because bulbuls start to nest and they will not allow any one to stop by. so glad i can see them in the college area. hope you like it.

well my Oman lifers have finished, thanks all for your very kind comments. so back to our birds, went to the farms North east Jeddah, looking for some early migrants, specially shrikes, i did not see any instead i got this one, which is the only breeding shrike in Jeddah and western Arabia. yet...

Desert - Southern grey shrike