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Image Taken on 01 Dec 2020 at 09:13    Image of day on 04 Jan 2021

A rare spell of sunshine breaks the interminable gloom allowing some attractive images of this Rook flying by.


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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 03 Jan 2025 at 13:47    Image of day on 10 Feb 2025

This Rook flew past us behind a couple of the Farm's Lombardy Poplars.


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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 05 Dec 2020 at 12:44    Image of day on 09 Jan 2021

A rook flies 'out of the glare of the sun' and past us, creating this unusual progression of appearance all in less than a second.


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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 08 May 2025 at 15:18    Image of day on 20 Jun 2025

This Rook was hunkered down on the mounds of soil and rubble outside our south hedge. Not pleased to see us human the bird launched awkwardly to escape.


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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 25 Feb 2024 at 11:19    Image of day on 23 Mar 2024

The landing Rook has no bad intentions towards the Pigeon, who nevertheless 'gets clear of the landing zone'.


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Image Taken on 15 Feb 2024 at 12:51    Image of day on 10 Mar 2024

This is probably the same Rook that has just chased away a Kestrel, landing on one of the 11kV cables, perhaps with a glow of satisfaction at a successful eviction?


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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 29 Mar 2021 at 09:47    Image of day on 23 Apr 2021

A Rook with an assortment of straggly nesting lands on the Kitchen Perch.
At small size 'thumbnail' we momentarily see this image as a flying skeleton!


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Image Taken on 01 Feb 2024 at 13:33    Image of day on 25 Feb 2024

Rooks are really magnificent birds!


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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 06 Mar 2025 at 11:13    Image of day on 16 Apr 2025

These two pics of a Rook landing on Meadow post are about half a second apart.


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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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