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Thursday 26 January 2012

Great Grey Shrike at Gyfylchi

Great Grey Shrike (c) Nick Murfin
Nick Murfin, Senior Ranger at Afan Valley Park, took this photo of a Great Grey Shrike which was showing just beyond the Mountain Centre and Bryn Bettws log cabins in young conifer plantation around SS814957. This photo was taken on the 13th January 2012 and is the in same area where Chris brewer found one last year 19th March. The distance between the Gyfylchi and Mynydd Margam is about 8km which isn't that far for a Shrike but these 2 areas did hold at least 2 birds around March last year. Elaine Jones has seen a Great Grey Shrike with some frequency near the Afan Argoed visitor centre this winter which is likely to be the same bird as photographed here.
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