A female of the European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae Scolytinae)
Bird seen coming out of bushes, landed on path with prey, pecked at it, flew another few metres, again landed and pecked a couple of times. Not recorded. Flew in a low bush and..... Left twice a feed chicks in nearby known nest. Total recorded time: 4 minutes. Ended when another shrike appeared and the killer flew off with the remainder of the kill.
Commonly known as slangkop, seen in the Gamkaberg Nature Reserve