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(nb - this post is from The Hag, I'm just setting up the blog categories for now, josh)

What lead to studying Jackdaws...

I have been really lucky. Esma first really got me into studying other Corvids and their way of life in the wilds. ( see blog appreciation to Esma)

So we have found we have a Jackery of about 5,000 Jackdaws and about 200 Rooks with a few Crows joining in.

Looking up at the rookery the other day trying to work out a good angle to film them from and I'm sure one of them was going "aaargh" at me as it looked directly at me and sort of nodded it's head and put it's wings up a bit like they do when they're saying hello (several times!).

as i didnt get to know reigny, cloud or inkpen very well merlin is the only one who would do this to me so i reckon it must be him. of course if you call out his name he will immediately look away from you and...

Hi guys,

sorry it's been so  long since I updated my blog but i've been a pretty busy bird recently, so much to do an never enough time for a Rook to get it all done!

Well I have to say that I really quite like this life as a house bird, humans are very easily trained and managed as long as you remember to squawk really loudly when they are trying to eat their dinner or watch the telly. lol I have got the youngest, really hyper human well trained now, at first h...

All the way from the west country came two birds in need of new homes, a rather tatty crow and a tiny cornish jackdaw. The crow, now named Edgar, has gone off to live with Sam "the Hag" and I foresee a long and meaningful relationship. The little jackdaw, which is a female identifiable by her diminutive size and dark colouring, is settling in here at The Rookery and enjoys calling to the wild jackdaws when she is out in the aviary. They visit most days and have been coming quite close, I susp...

Mystic passes beyond

Mystic was seen by the vet shortly before he died, and he could find nothing physically wrong with his wings so he must have had some brain damage, possibly quite severe as when he got down on the floor he couldn't manage to hop back up to the sofa, and when in his cage couldn't get from perch to perch, or even turn round on the perch he was on. His attempts at bathing were always feeble, standing in a bowl as if he wanted t...

Mystic Crow has died! Jo was bathing him and he went into shock and did not recover

so we are now a corvid free household for the time being

it has been a really awful year for rescues for us, merlin left us, then greenwing died, then inkpen flew away, then reigny escaped and cloud joined her and then mysitc died just as he was growing all his feathers back even his leg feathers.

plus we have lost at least one other bird along the way,

let's just hope nex...

Reigny goes flyabout:

Reigny got away when I was tring to bring her in from the aviary, and has been residing in the rookery ever since. She comes to me every day for cheese and other treats, but does'nt seem desperately hungry, so is definitely finding her own food too.

Despite the gathering of wild rooks which happens every morning now between 5 and 9 am, she is staying put when they leave. 

Cloud is anxious to join her, and as her adult plumage is improving all the t...

Hi Folks, sorry it's been such a long time since I last updated you all but my human is really hard to pin down sometimes and really claws don't mix well with keyboards!!!!!!

Well, I'm really getting these humans wrapped around my tail feathers, as my human sits typing this for me I am squawking VERY loudly at her, I love to wind her up by making a racket, it's good fun. I especially like to make a noise when I smell toast, yum! and when they all sit down to eat their dinne...

The rookling from Em is called cloud! (another aspect of the valkyrie Mist)

and Reigny is actually feeding him (her) herself! Quite an achievement for an under one year old, she will actually put bits of food into clouds mouth rather than eat them herself.

Poor Mystic crow is doing well, we have even had a couple of CAWS out of him, only a very few as yet. Some feathers look like they are starting to grow back, just two little stripes down his chest as yet but hopefully they will ...