No. Bull.

Post date: Oct 31, 2010 8:23:5 PM

With an extra hour of daylight this morning, I started the day at Hanworth to count the wildfowl. Nothing exciting here though amongst the 250 odd Teal, a drake Pintail being the highlight, along with a Barnacle Goose (if it had been wild, which I'm sure it wasn't) I then spent the best part of the day mooching about around Trimingham/Sidestrand with little recompense until I went to check out a sizable flock of Skylarks, nothing with them, but my attention was drawn to a large glowing grey blob in a distant hedge row. Unfortunately not a 'grey' shrike but a Bullfinch, and surely Northern. The clean 'snow-shadow' grey upperparts and luminescent rose pink underparts, combined with a solid white wingbar and the fact that it looked like it could give the close-by Blackbirds a run for their money due to its size all point to this enigmatic sub-species. Unfortunately it was too distant for any chance of hearing a call.