Woodchat Shrike on Humber Bank at East Halton Monday 29th

Seen briefly this morning along wall near the chimney. Tried phonescoping it, but couldn't hold on to it properly.

Sorry for late addition, but I didn't know what I'd seen until I received the newsletter!

I was walking along the riverbank just past Winter's Pond heading towards the Skitter, when I saw the bird fly out of the hedge along and away from me. I managed to get quite a good look at it with my bins and noticed particularly a very rufous head and brown body, with a narrow white band around the nape of the neck and white patches on wings and flanks. I couldn't ID it, other than to rule out a tree sparrow - the head was much redder.

I came home and looked in my Collins. The nearest was a Woodcut Shrike, but the illustration showed a much blacker bird with no pale nape of the neck, and I wasn't confident enough to think mine was the same.

Then I received the newsletter and there was my bird - the Woodchat Shrike photo'd at Anderby Creek looked just like mine - much paler than in the book and with a definite pale nape of neck.

I have added my Shrike to my list as I'm now sure this was what it was.