The Great Grey Shrike and its call
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2017
- This video shows multiple views of a Great Grey Shrike wintering on Crabtree Hill in the Forest of Dean with general information about the Shrike. The annotation is really aimed at people new to birding and the wider international audience.
![الجزار: تعرف على طائرٍ الصرد الرمادي الكبيرThe great grey shrike [lanius excubitor]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/welYypUhoRM/mqdefault.jpg)
Great video - confirmed what the wee bird is we saw today. We were just 3m away from them. Amazing
Ruth thanks, that is amazing! So lucky to get close views. They’re only a Winter visitor in our part of the world. . I’d be interested to know where you saw it!
Imagine if the background to this was 'Shrike' by Hozier haha
Well James I hadn’t heard of Hosier but thank you for bringing him to my attention, lovely music and lyrics. I’ve found You Tube are very quick to issue copywriter warnings about any use of music, even a soundtrack I’d produced by sequencing some Apple free to use tracks as a background to a video of butterflies, turns out they were sampled from a piece I’d never heard of .
Brilliant video of the shrike! Fantastic captures! Saw one today at Leash Fen in Peak District, Derbyshire! Saw it through someone’s telescope, perched on top of a birch sapling!!
Thank you Fiona, I wish I’d seen your Shrike! Such a striking bird. the one I filmed used to return regularly but we haven’t seen one in the Forest of Dean for a couple of years.
Amazing pictures (especially the ones with the newts!). Brilliant for identification purposes. Thanks so much.
Steve rc47 Thank YOU so much Steve, really kind of you to take the time to comment. The little creatures it's snacking on are actually lizards, which seem to be more common that newts here - although I've got to confess the Shrike is far more successful at spotting them than me!
I like the pellet drop at the end
Cheers Duty James, thanks for watching it right through to the end and for taking the time to comment. It was great that it honked right on cue! 😊
Rất xinh đẹp ! Rất dễ thương ! Chúng có vẻ thích đậu trên những ngọn cây đã rụng hết lá. Cành cây mỏng manh lắc lư trong gió. Dễ thương quá , và kiếm mồi cũng giỏi nữa ! 😊
Chúng rất hiếm ở đây và chỉ đến vào mùa đông sau đó quay trở lại Na Uy. Chúng nổi bật trong rừng bởi vì chúng trông rất tươi sáng dưới ánh mặt trời và luôn đậu trên ngọn cây. Tôi rất may mắn nếu tôi được nhìn thấy một.
Hy vọng bạn có một ngày cuối tuần tuyệt vời!
Trân trọng,
John
@@johnluk Thank you John ! 😊
They are so cute.
But we know they are bloodthirsty butchers as well ))
Thank you Ozan, yes they’re both of those things!
wow really impressed with the zoom power of your camera . great video . thank you .
Thank you Debbie. I was really pleased with that camera, a Panasonic Lumix FZ82, which has a 60X zoom. I've changed cameras now to a Nikon P1000 that has a whopping 120X zoom. I loved the Lumix because it was light and yet very powerful, the Nikon is really heavy and bulky weighing about 3lbs but where i do most of my filming (Goldcliff) it is impossible to get close to the subjects and that extra zoom really helps!
I can't believe theres a Shrike couple near my grandma's house.
I thought there was a kitty outside then I seen this things fly from bush to bush, I think it was curious what I was holding. I captured it on my camera. These creatures like the cold weather here.
Amazing! What a great spot. Where are you based? I haven't seen a G.G.Shrike for a couple of years now. They introduced cattle in the Forest of Dean where it regularly returned to to 'improve the habitat' a bit of 'rewilding' but it seems to have had the effect of driving the Shrike out.
Nicely filmed John 👍🏽
The World through a lens
Thanks! So good of you to take the time to post a comment, really encouraging!
+The World through a lens I can't seem to find the right link to post a comment on other people's vids though, any advice appreciated!
Just had one up in Scotland, sat in a tree preening itself for a few minutes so got some decent pictures. Didn’t chance our luck by getting any closer though
Well done Martin, what a stroke of luck, and good to hear you didn’t get close enough to disturb it. I’ve seen so many folks with huge lenses showing no fieldcraft and spooking birds.
im pretty sure ive just seen one of those great gray shrikes in uk midlands
There was one in the Rhonda last week and one in the same area of the Forest of Dean that I recorded this last month, possibly still there so it’s certainly possible. Good spot!
Hi could you tell we what type of bird is shown in the top right of the opening page please? Thank you!
Hi Susie! It’s a Pied Flycatcher which I recorded from the Bruce Campbell hide in RSPB Nagshead, Forest of Dean. The full video is here: th-cam.com/video/5BW9C3lFp8Q/w-d-xo.html
@@johnluk thank you so much for your reply! I'm trying to identify a bird I saw earlier today near Harrow. I think that rules out a Pied Flycatcher? It looked like a much smaller scruffy magpie. I took a photo but it isn't very helpful!
@@susiew8695 You’re right in saying it can’t be a Pied Flycatcher at this time of the year. What about the Great Grey Shrike itself? although I don’t think you’d call it scruffy.
ah ok i watched the rest of the video!
+Marie-Claire 👍
is this at crabtree hill by any chance? or hawling?
I’m terribly sorry Marie-Claire, only 3 years late with a reply! For some reason your comment wasn’t flagged in the “comments you’ve not replied to” section and I hadn’t seen it. Yes it was Crabtree Hill, somewhere I’d love to return to once the lockdown is over. Apparently the Shrike was there this year too although I haven’t had the opportunity to see it!
who else is here for hozier :D
🤣 Well thank you for your visit, sorry if you were disappointed! I only discovered Hozier through someone else following the same path!
@@johnluk oh not at all!! This is exactly what I was looking for! I wanted some context for his song, (which I'm sure you've heard by now ;) but they're absolutely beautiful, awesome video :D
@@caminugent1651 Great to hear, thank you!
I have tons of shrikes living around me and they are problem makers 😂😂😂😂
I wish we had the same ‘problems’ 😂They are very rare in the U.K., very occasional visitors, and as far as I know none breeding here.
@@johnluk they attack cats 😂
No way! That’s incredible!