lanius cristatus

Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

My first Brown Shrike of the day however still debate over this is one or not

Another scarce visitor in the company of the local Stonechats

A juvenile Brown Shrike. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

SONY NEX-6 Soligor 250mm f/4.5 ISO200 crop

Here is another shrike image, Margaret. This one is an youngster. This is the first visitor this season. This time last year I had seen an adult.

The Shrike seemed at ease with me and my camera and maintained its position on the branch for about 20 odd minutes. Just kept changing its head position !!

Brown Shrike

Cant say for sure which sub species this is! But they are quite common here!

Adult female. Common winter visitor to Singapore. Settings: 1050mm ISO160 1/200s f/2.5 -0.3EV.

This shrike is mainly brown on the upper parts and the tail is rounded. The black mask can be paler in winter and has a white brow over it. The underside is creamy with rufous flanks and belly. The wings are brown and lack any white mirror patches. Females have fine scalloping on the underside...

A Brown Shrike- looks like a First Winter

Much smaller primaries than Red-backed Shrike.

Brown Shrike (18cm). Donald, I know you enjoy shrikes so here's a shot of the king of my garden. Large numbers of Brown Shrike winter on Taiwan. They tend to return to the same territory each winter and stay there until late March. This chap has his territory around our house and I caught him...

(female)

Brown Shrike (18cm). Large numbers of Brown Shrike winter on Taiwan. I always look forward to the return of these little beauties. They tend to return to the same territory each winter and stay there until late March. This chap has his territory around our house and I caught him hawking insects...

This is juvenile migrant....