{"id":9161,"date":"2014-09-22T07:16:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2014-09-22T07:16:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T07:16:55","slug":"britains-3rd-masked-shrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/britains-3rd-masked-shrike\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s 3rd Masked Shrike"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Migration Hot Spot at Spurn struck again this weekend<\/strong><\/span>. Saturday 20th September 2014 a Shrike that had been found in the “Canal Area” and originally identified as a Woodchat, was re-identified as Britain’s 3rd Masked Shrike<\/span>. The bird stayed faithful to a large area of hedgerow at the back of Rose Cottage and fortunately, was still there when we arrived Sunday morning 21st September 2014. A much better looking Masked Shrike than the one I saw at Kilrenny in Fife on 31st October 2004. This bird showed a slight apricot coloration to the flanks on it’s right side and had a full tail.<\/p>\n

Highlights – There was also a good selection of migrants about the area including a smart Barred Warbler<\/span>, scattering of Redstart and Whinchat, single Pied Flycatcher and Spotted Flycatcher, several lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat and Wheatear and a brief glimpse in flight of an Olive-backed Pipit.<\/span> Why the bird had to be flushed I do not know, which was most annoying for the numerous birders arriving late on in the day. A sea-watch off Kilnsey produced around a dozen Sooty Shearwater,<\/span> several hundred feeding Little Gull, a dozen Manx Shearwater<\/span>, single Arctic Skua, possible Long-tailed Skua, 10 Eider, 8 Red-throated Diver and a single Black-throated Diver. All in all another good day at this remarkable place called Spurn. Year List moves on to 207<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Spurn<\/p>\n

Looking towards Spurn Lighthouse from Canal Bank<\/strong> – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Masked<\/p>\n

My first view of the Masked Shrike<\/strong> – distant in the hedgerow – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LMasked<\/p>\n

Masked Shrike<\/strong> – 1st year – Gave superb views through the scope all day – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LMasked<\/p>\n

Masked Shrike<\/strong> – The best I could muster with a Canon 400m f5.6 and 1.4 converter (heavily cropped) \u00a0– never came really close during the time I spent watching it – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Barred \"Barred<\/p>\n

\"Barred \"Barred \"Barred<\/p>\n

Barred Warbler<\/strong> – 1st year – Crown & Anchor, Kilnsey – A little more obliging – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Greenland<\/p>\n

Northern Wheatear<\/strong> – first year – looking rather like a “Greenland” Wheatear – very buff and apricot coloured in appearance – showing off it’s jewellery! – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Willow<\/p>\n

Willow Warbler<\/strong> – First year – Crown & Anchor, Kilnsey – Tony Davison\u00a9 – this bird had been called a Chiffchaff !!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Migration Hot Spot at Spurn struck again this weekend. Saturday 20th September 2014 a Shrike that had been found in the “Canal Area” and originally identified as a Woodchat, was re-identified as Britain’s 3rd Masked Shrike. The bird stayed faithful to a large area of hedgerow at the back of Rose Cottage and fortunately, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[530,18,600,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","category-birds","category-birdsof2014","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}