Passerines: Flycatchers, Shrikes & Tits
Spotted Flycatcher
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Blue Tit
Pied Flycatcher
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Brown Flycatcher
Long-tailed Tits, Gunners Park, Essex - 17th April 2007
Blue Tit, Wat Tyler Country Park, Essex - 21st January 2007
Blue Tits are regular visitors to the back garden 2008
Penduline Tit, Rainham Marshes, Essex, 1st January 2009
The most regular site in Britain, more of of this bird here
Red-backed Shrike - Warham Greens, Norfolk 16th September 2006
more of this particular bird here
Red-backed Shrike - Wakering Stairs, Essex September 2007
more of this particular bird here
Red-backed Shrike, juvenile, Vange Marsh, Essex 22nd August 2010
Note that this bird has only one tail feather
Woodchat Shrike, Pelistry, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly October 2007
Long staying juvenile often showed well on path side hedges behind the Carn Vean team room. For more click here.
Red-backed Shrike, Gimble Porth, Tresco , Isles of Scilly October 2007
This juvenile was seen to catch a Scilly Shrew, juvvies don't get much better than this. For more of this bird, along with the Scilly Shrew, click here
'Daurian' Isabelline Shrike - Dungeness, Kent 15th October 2006
More of this super shrike by clicking here
Woodchat Shrike, female Pelistry, St. Mary's Isles of Scilly 11th May 2010
A difficult bird to get close to, for other images click on the image above
Woodchat Shrike, West Canvey Marshes, Essex 18th May 2010
Another great local bird, this female was successfully twitched after work
click on the image to see more of this bird
Great Grey Shrike - Gunners Park, Shoeburyness 29th September 2007
More images of the scarce local bird here
Woodchat Shrike, male, Vine Farm, Bryher , Isles of Scilly May 2009
For more of this bird click here.
Woodchat Shrike, Two Tree Island, Essex 13th July 2008
More pictures of this bird, the first in SOG for over 10 years, here
Great Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Penduline Tit
Red-backed Shrike
Isabelline Shrike
Woodchat Shrike
Great Grey Shrike
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 Wat Tyler 21st January 2007.JPG)
Great Tit, Two Tree Island East, Essex 12th March 2011
Red-backed Shrike - Vange, Essex 11th June 2011
This female is now the second to occur at Vange Marsh in the past two years and remarkably it favoured the very same bushes as the juvenile that was here last year. As with that bird this individual was mobile and often difficult to pin down so these images are the best I could get of it. More of this bird can be seen here.
Great Grey Shrike, Fair Isle, 24th September 2011
Only seen on the 24th this bird ranged widely around the island and was often tricky for other birders to catch up with. As it was wide ranging I was unable to get close to get any decent images.