Woodchat Shrike

Three records this century (plus one record of the badius subspecies):

2011 – a first-summer female on Sodbury Common from July 30th until August 21st

2013 – a first-summer on Widcombe Common from April 21st until 30th

2017 – a first-winter at Chipping Sodbury Common from August 30th until September 19th

There are three records from the late twentieth century:

1989 – an adult at Marshfield on July 23rd [BBRC]

1993 – an adult male at Prospect Stile, Lansdown on April 30th

1994 – an adult near Thornbury on April 22nd

There is one acceptable nineteenth century record, prior to 1887, ‘killed in Somerset, within a few miles of Bristol’, 1888 Zoologist page 221, Aplin (1892) [Naylor]. The 2011 and 2013 ABRs both incorrectly state the site as the Marshfield area.

L. s. badius

A nationally rare subspecies with one local record, a first-summer male at Uphill from 11th until 13th June, 2005 [BBRC]