Big bonus with friendly Red-backed Shrike.

We head to Landguard as we think the wind will be north  easterly & we might see some stuff passing through past the naze, when we arrive we have got the wind wrong, it turns out to be in the other direction.
We still spend a fair amount  of time here without seeing to much, just a few Wheatears,plenty of Linnets & some Greenfinches.
So we head off looking for somewhere that had something of interest to us, we end up at Abberton.
Once again not to much about just one Green sandpiper,some Ruff, eight Little Egrets,plus three Hobbies over the back of the water & two Common Buzzards also fly high,On the way back to Essex we decide to see if the Red-backed Shrike has hung about.
We arrive at the site & walk the paths not sure where to start looking for the bird, when we see four people a bit further down the path, so we head down to them, as we get close they signal to us to be quite as the bird is sitting up no more than a few feet away from them.
We get onto the Shrike for the best views any of us had ever had, a real beauty & it stays on the bush for some good photos, we have never been this close to a Shrike before,a really friendly bird this one.

Red-backed Shrike