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Birds - Rook Page 13

Image Taken on 30 Dec 2024 at 12:48 Image of day on 01 Feb 2025

Birds normally perch with head into the wind, but this one just ignores their feathers being blown about - for the moment anyway.

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

Juvenile Rook here outnumber the adults - its been a good year for Rook breeding. This one on the Farm railings to our south is making his presence known.

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Image Taken on 03 Jun 2026 at 08:10 Image of day on 19 Jul 2026

This juvenile Rook hasn't learnt yet that humans are to be feared.
We left the bird in peace by taking a side path.

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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 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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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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