Red-backed Shrike - Bakewell

Belated news of a juvenile Red-backed Shrike photographed (below) in a Bakewell Garden on 13th September confirms that migrant birds can, and do, turn up in unlikely locations! The bird was looked for in the following days but wasn't seen again.

Red-backed Shrike - juvenile

A former breeding bird in the distant past with records from Matlock and Cromford with the last nest reported from Cromford in 1942. 

Since then there was one recorded at Lumsdale in July  in 1951, Masson Hill in August 1960 and Taddington in October 1976 so it could be a while before the next record.