bizarre steppes

in line with recent events the shrike perched on my big lens while I was looking through the camera twice this afternoon but no-one had a wide angle lens on! --it is clearly enjoying the bounty of the food turned up in the ploughed stubble field  -- large earth worms are being stored in a larder maybe in preparation for the predicted snow -- in one shot it had clearly seen some threat in the sky but I could not find anything visible to the human eye