Great Grey Shrike and Brambling added to my Birders Wife's year list

As we were visiting friends in Kidderminster today, I took the opportunity to visit Hopwood again (being just a mile off the motorway) to show my Birders Wife the Great Grey Shrike.  The bird was showing as we arrived but was very distant and therefore we did not stay long and instead decided to head for the Lickey Hills to find the flock of Bramblings currently residing there.  The flock had been reported as not being that far into the wood, which was fortunate as we were not dressed for birding and we soon found them about 50m from the road (with help from a friendly birder who gave us directions) - Mission accomplished and we headed onto Kidderminster for Sunday lunch.