Great Grey Shrike - 1980 onwards

Lanius excubitor - Scarce winter visitor

1983 - 1, Lower Heythog, 6 Feb (JWD); a Grey Shrike of undetermined species, Whitesands, 17 May (EJ)

1984 - 1, Angle Bay, 18 Nov (RJH).

1988 - Singles Skomer 7 April (SJS) and Llangwm 13 Oct (JG) 

1989 - Singles, Fowborough in Mar and Oakwood 31 Mar - 6 April

1993 - One at West Williamston 28 Nov

1994 - One in Lawrenny/Deal's Cross area 2 Jan (JWD, GHB)

1996  - One Kilgetty, 27 March (RE)

1997 - One Moylegrove 8 Feb

1998 - One Slebech Park c12 Dec (WC)

1999 - One Balckpool Mill 9-11 Jan (JB, TJP)

2002 - One Skomer 10 Oct (DC).

2004 - One was present St Davids Head 31 Oct (MYP et al).  This may have been the same bird which was at St Davids airfield 12-19 Nov (BD et al)

2008 - One turned up and was seen by a few lucky people at Llys-y-fran  Reservoir 22-24 Jan.  It then relocated to Ty Rhyg where it was seen and enjoyed my many, 10 Feb until 22 April (MYP et al)

2009 -  A rare winter visitor. One at Ty Rhyg from 13th - 21st Mar at least. A grey shrike on Ramsey on 4th June could have been Great Grey, Lesser or Steppe Grey but was never specifically identified.

2010 - Singles Pen Anglas 16th-17th Oct, Ty Rhyg 23rd Oct & 14th Nov, Llys y fran Res 24th Oct and a long staying individual at the Teifi Marshes 18th Jan - 9th Apr.

2011 - Two wintering individuals were located, the returning Ty Rhyg bird, 3rd – 26th March, returning again 26th Oct – 28th Dec and a second bird in Pantmaenog Forest from 4th Mar, returning there 22nd Oct until the end of the year.

2012 - A single Ty Rhyg from 2nd Jan – 11th Apr and a different bird was located at Pantmaenog from 21st Mar until April and again on 27th Oct- 2nd Dec.

2013 - The only record was of a single at Pencarnan, St. Davids from 16th-22nd Nov

2015 - One at the Gann on 17th Oct was the only record received.

2018 - Singles at Pantmaenog 9th Feb, Plumstone Mountain on 16th Mar and Nov 2nd also Myndd Craig Iwydd on 28th Oct.

Records extracted from the Pembrokeshire Bird Reports

Great Grey Shrike - 1949 status

Lanius excubitor excubitor

Mathew records oen killed "some years ago" at Wolfsdale in the parish of Camrose.  One at Newport, 7 Jan 1946 (R.M.L.)

R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society

Great Grey Shrike - 1994

Scarce winter visitor and passage migrant. Not recorded from June to September

Recorded only twice prior to 1955, at Wolf's Castle "some years ago" (Mathew 1894) and at Newport on 7 January 1946 (Lockley et al. 1949), Great Grey Shrikes have been noted in 18 years subsequently. There appears to be a small but erratic passage in the periods 13 October to 22 November and March to early April, with a late bird at Freshwater West on 21 May 1960. Most are recorded from heathy areas of the mainland, but they have twice occurred at Skomer.

They were recorded in winter (December to February) at Hayscastle in 1962, at Rosebush in 1964-1965, at Mathry in 1967, at Wiston in 1969, at Newport in 1970, at Crosswell in 1974, at Roch in 1977, at Cam lngli in 1979, at Lower Haythog in 1983 and at Hook in 1989.

Donovan J.W. & Rees G.H (1994), Birds of Pembrokeshire

Great Grey Shrike - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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