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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 46
Image Taken on 18 Sep 2019
at 09:04 Image of day on 04 Nov 2019
A Rook flies by the west side of the house, photographed through an upstairs window.
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Image Taken on 01 Apr 2019
at 14:02 Image of day on 30 Apr 2019
A Rook carrying his latest piece of 'timber' to reinforce the nest.
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Image Taken on 02 Mar 2020
at 15:46 Image of day on 25 Mar 2020
Another stick for the Rook nest.
The abnormal conditions have produced what seems to us an enormous amount
of dead branches and twigs lying all over the woodland.
The Corvids are treating the place as a 'click and collect builder's merchant'
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Image Taken on 14 Jul 2017
at 10:51 Image of day on 29 Aug 2017
We have a few times spotted corvids carrying what looked like
short sticks, and have finally resolved the puzzle by catching
this Rook flying overhead with a Wheat crop seed head, presumably
to consume elsewhere.
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Image Taken on 24 Apr 2008
at 16:43 Image of day on 09 May 2008
We have recently seen this rook with a load of wing feathers missing
but it doesn't seem to effect his flight one iota.
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Image Taken on 13 Mar 2018
at 15:45 Image of day on 19 Apr 2018
Now the Rook nests are built, the materials for the nest moves on to insulation
and comfort - here goes a beakful of dried foliage for one of the nests.
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Image Taken on 07 Dec 2018
at 13:53 Image of day on 21 Jan 2019
A Rook lands at the Woodland site in a flurry of feathers.
Not a trace of the wonderful iridescence we see on the Magpie.
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Image Taken on 22 Dec 2019
at 13:16 Image of day on 24 Jan 2020
A Rook landing on the grass at the meadow site.
The woodland behind is now mostly leafless and allows in quite
a lot of sunlight, so it doesn't look 'black' as it does in summer.
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Image Taken on 03 Apr 2019
at 16:36 Image of day on 02 May 2019
A Rook lands at this site, already peering down to see what there is to eat.
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Image Taken on 01 Feb 2020
at 13:21 Image of day on 23 Feb 2020
A Rook makes an accurate landing on the Meadow post.
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Image Taken on 11 Mar 2012
at 16:42 Image of day on 11 Apr 2012
Each day we place food at various sites as 'bait'. At some times of the
year the Rooks and sometimes jackdaws turn up around our standard time
and squabble over access.
First a Rook arriving at the top of a baited post top -
the images would have overlapped so are spread horizontally.
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Image Taken on 17 Jan 2017
at 15:21 Image of day on 23 Feb 2017
A speck in the sky becomes this magnificent creation.
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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2013
at 18:03 Image of day on 21 May 2013
We are getting rather 'fond' of our rooks.
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Image Taken on 04 Nov 2012
at 15:34 Image of day on 09 Dec 2012
We get so used to the plethora of Jackdaws and Rooks here that you can
forget what magnificent creatures they are up close.
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Image Taken on 23 Dec 2017
at 16:01 Image of day on 28 Jan 2018
We have several images, similar to this one, of a Rook landing
left to right on the tree-stump, just fitting the frame.
What a magnificent bird.
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Image Taken on 14 Dec 2017
at 15:12 Image of day on 22 Jan 2018
A Wonderful show of glossy plumage as this Rook lands on the tree-stump.
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Image Taken on 13 Dec 2016
at 15:33 Image of day on 23 Jan 2017
THUMP.
"Now what's there to eat?"
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Image Taken on 31 Jan 2018
at 16:27 Image of day on 04 Mar 2018
For a week or two a month either side of the Winter Solstice the
sun penetrates the trees at around sunset with the current layout
of this site. Here a Rook triggers the camera.
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Image Taken on 05 Sep 2011
at 06:54 Image of day on 24 Oct 2011
Whenever the wind is strong the rooks and other corvids can be seen
obviously playing or showing off in the updrafts over the fields,
and here at the top of the local Lombardy Poplar tree.
The top bare twig isn't really stiff enough for
their weight but that doesn't stop them trying to land on it.
Here we think the bird was using the beak as an extra grip.
Despite several tries it never got a stable perch.
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Image Taken on 03 Jan 2015
at 14:15 Image of day on 16 Feb 2015
Oh dear - we think Rooks look delightful.
That's what living with them for 25 years does to the brain!
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