Confiding White Crested Helmet Shrike.

You will have to go some to find shrikes in this country as obliging as these birds. In the U.K Great Grey Shrikes e.g. don't tolerate people very well, if at all, and you nave to work really hard or be extremely lucky to get close to them. This shrike, however, seemed to be inquisitive towards me, although in order to get this close I was being very quiet and also moving extremely slowly towards it one tentative step at a time, then taking a shot and repeating the process.

This is the result.