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Birds - Rook Page 10

Image Taken on 10 Jul 2008 at 07:25 Image of day on 22 Jul 2008

After a day of rain an early bright period saw a lot of corvids out looking over waterlogged soil for breakfast. This rook silhouette with beak and eye rather appealed to us.

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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 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 28 Nov 2016 at 08:46 Image of day on 08 Jan 2017

As the early morning sun strikes the trees and streaks the leaf litter, a Rook arrives to check out the site for missed morsels under the leaves.

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Image Taken on 27 Mar 2023 at 10:47 Image of day on 05 May 2023

It's not unusual to see a Corvids (Crow, Jackdaw etc.) in the distance, usually in the general direction of the sun, looking so bright that you momentarily think it must be an Egret of other white bird. Its just the sun glistening off the shiny feathers, and here you see the effect as sunlight catches the far wing of this flying Rook

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Image Taken on 11 Mar 2021 at 11:55 Image of day on 14 Apr 2021

Rooks often seem to come for a brief bathe at this pond, but we usually only catch the rook with the ripples. Here in the middle image we see with bird jumping in for at most a few seconds.

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Image Taken on 24 Jun 2018 at 17:53 Image of day on 17 Aug 2018

Juvenile Rooks (left) don't have the white beaks of the adult . At a glance you can mistake them for a Carrion Crow except that they are slightly smaller and very sociable.

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Image Taken on 23 May 2019 at 18:02 Image of day on 27 Jun 2019

Here is a Rook youngster demanding food from the hard-pressed parent.

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Image Taken on 28 Jun 2014 at 18:16 Image of day on 03 Sep 2014

We have not so far seen Rooks feeding youngsters at the hi-res photo sites or at the peanut feeders (their beaks are just too large). But here in the orchard a 'trail camera' catches a young rook demanding to be fed by a less than enthusiastic parent.

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Image Taken on 13 Jun 2023 at 16:39 Image of day on 07 Aug 2023

This young Rook makes it very clear to the rather depressed looking parent that it wants F O O D !

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Image Taken on 13 May 2017 at 19:01 Image of day on 07 Jul 2017

MORE!!!!!!
The juvenile Rook showing us his ever-empty gape.

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Image Taken on 04 Jul 2016 at 16:35 Image of day on 24 Aug 2016

Probably the young Rook equivalent of the Teenager shouting "Food".

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Image Taken on 07 May 2020 at 07:10 Image of day on 30 May 2020

The Rooks seem mostly to have finished making the new generation. Here we have 2 pairs of Rooks, juvenile on the left in each case.

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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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