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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Genghis Attenborough" data-source="post: 1605497" data-attributes="member: 61067">There unfortuanately isn't a better quality pic, there is a less zoomed in one, but that won't make a lot of difference. The colour of the plumage certainly matches a Steppe Grey, but for us (particularly my father who saw it) this was a completely different bird, much smaller for one thing than any Grey Shrike sp (certainly that my father has seen) and as mentioned on the bird track pool it looked completely different in flight, nearly almost all black and white even though the perched bird shows surprisingly a lot of grey on the back and top of the head. Also he says the tail shape was long and slender, unlike grey shrikes, and the neat, thin white outer tail feathers were of the same ratio from tip to base. He really doesn't know what it is, but he said he cannot get his head around Steppe Grey.It will forever be a mystery to us.</blockquote>