While we were driving past the Tule Elk enclosure at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge last weekend, a Loggerhead Shrike (
Lanius ludovicianus) landed on the nearby fence to see what we were up to. I don't see them that often, and it is rare for me to get any decent shots of any (there
was this one time last year, though).
The Loggerhead Shrike is related to the
songbirds, but behaves like a small raptor, eating large bugs,
amphibians, small reptiles and mammals, and even other small birds.
According to the
Cornell Ornithology site, their population has been in a
steep decline, perhaps due to ingestion of pesticides in their prey.
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