Little Crake + Steppe grey & Red-backed Shrikes.

Up early to head up to North Norfolk, the aim is to get another lifer in the Steppe-grey Shrike that has been seen at Burnham Norton over the last few days.
It is just getting light when we arrive, it's not to long a walk up the track & we can see a group of birders already here & when we reach them they have the bird in view.
The bird flies from the bushes & feeds from some meal worms that had been placed there by a local birder, this gives us some great close views of this cracking little bird, the light is rubbish with what little sun being right behind the bird. We spend a few hours just watching the bird go back & forth.
So another lifer in the bag for all three of us, we now head off to Ness point Lowestoft to look for the Red-backed Shrike reported as being seen in the Birdseye car park,this is 70 miles away so it was good of Brian to get us there as he had already had one for his year tick, Jimmy & myself both needed it for our year tick.
We find the place without any trouble & pick out the bird within minutes of arrival, at first we are the only ones here so we have the bird all to our self. We get some good close photos of another very accommodating Shrike.
On the way home we decide to have a quick look in at Minsmere to see if the Little Crake is still about. We park in a very full car park & head down to the Bittern Hide.
The hide is packed but we can still get good views of the area where the Crake had been seen, we stand next to a fellow that had been in the hide for a few  hours looking for it, but as luck has it he had just got it in his scope, he kindly lets us get a look at it so we don't suffer the same fate as him & as it turns out the Crake shows on & off over the next 1/2 hour or so, we get some really good scope views to round off another great day birding, we end up with 2 lifers for all three off us & a year tick for Jimmy & myself.

         

Red-backed Shrike

The Shrike when we arrived

Steppe Grey Shrike