Great Grey Shrike at Therfield

With Brian not sure about getting out today, Jimmy gets itchy feet & asks if we should go & look for the Shrike at Therfield Heath.
A couple of texts to Brian just to make sure he's not going to make it, we get no answer, so as it's not to far to drive, only 30 odd miles I make my mind up to go.
We came a couple of weeks ago & missed it on a really windy day, so we try a different place to approach this time, we are at the bottom end of the valley this time & it's not a long walk before we are in the right area to start looking.
As we walk we meet a walker with his dog, he want's to know what we are after, we tell him the name,size, colour, of the bird, as we walk the fellow thinks he has just seen it in front of us, Jimmy & myself don't see anything, but we spend some time looking in that area, but nothing doing, so we think he was probably wrong, & we walk on a bit down the track.
A fellow birder who has come from Ipswich to look for it, ask's if we have seen anything of the bird yet, we tell him no,& we spend some time with him & scan  over the fields, no luck so far.
So we split up from each other to give us more chance of spotting the target.
Not to long after that the other birder calls to us that he has it in the scope, we get onto it right away.
The bird is a fair way off so we walk along behind the bushes to try for a better view of it.
This works well as we get really good views of it through the scope.

Along way off but a record shot of it.

As we head back we talk to a nice couple, they tell us they had just seen a Shrike in the bushes where the dog walker had told us he had seen it, so that must be a low for me,I get used to Brian & Jimmy spotting the birds for me, but now a non birder spots it before me.
A quick trip that gets us the Great Grey Shrike, that's another year tick so well good, shame that Brian was not with us today, but he will get to see it soon.Off home for a nice roast now.