Nice photo, Peter!

We had one at our house briefly yesterday. A large flock of jays - 
appearing larger in size - were surprisingly unconcerned. My sense is 
that there have been an increasing number of shrikes reported from 
around New England within the past week.

Doug Hardy, Norwich



On 1/20/2014 5:37 PM, Peter LaBelle wrote:
> Just had a Northern shrike come by our house in East Thetford.
> Perched for a few minutes in a beech by our house before flying off.
> Luckily, it returned a little bit later and I managed a photo, albeit a bit  fuzzy:
> http://www.ipernity.com/doc/288937/29809117
>
> After I got that shot the bird flew off and hovered in mid air over our field for a few seconds before flying off for good.
>
>

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