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Cyril Brown

Member

• Dec 3, 2015

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Hi
I've recently started working next to the Nissan plant in Sunderland.
Every evening around 5pm just as it's getting dark when I'm finishing work, whole flocks of Jackdaws, numbers must run into thousands pass overhead heading north towards the main car plant.
What's happening here would they be roosting at night on or around the plant to stay warm?
It's a great spectacle any info on this would be greatly appreciated by this very inexperienced birder!

 

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Allen S. Moore

Well-known member

• Dec 3, 2015

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Cyril Brown said:

Hi
I've recently started working next to the Nissan plant in Sunderland.
Every evening around 5pm just as it's getting dark when I'm finishing work, whole flocks of Jackdaws, numbers must run into thousands pass overhead heading north towards the main car plant.
What's happening here would they be roosting at night on or around the plant to stay warm?
It's a great spectacle any info on this would be greatly appreciated by this very inexperienced birder!

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Sometimes corvids gather at a pre-roost site and then fly to their actual communal roost. I am thinking of jackdaws and rooks sometimes gathering on the roof of a nursing home here in Peel before flying off to roost. Even more spectacularly, when I was last in Segovia, Spain the red-billed choughs gathered at the Cathedral before flying off to "satellite" roosts in the city.

There again, the jackdaws may find your Nissan plant a safe place to roost.

Welcome to the forum.

 

Adam W

Well-known member

• Dec 3, 2015

• #3

I believe there's a large roost of Jackdaws in a nearby plantation (Peppy plantation I think?) also large numbers of Woodpigeons flight back each evening to roost there.

 

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Cyril Brown

Member

• Dec 3, 2015

• #4

Thanks for your replies fellas it's much appreciated.
They really are in huge numbers they take quite a while to pass overhead, normally though in several different flocks.

 

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daz_martin

Active member

• Dec 22, 2015

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I live very close to the Nissan plant, they come over every evening, impressive site. Have been for years, Mrs walks the dog around there and she said it's looks as though they are landing on the roof. Not sure though.

 

JWN Andrewes

Poor Judge of Pasta.

• Dec 22, 2015

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We have a flock of Jackdaws in the village that I often watch from the back door. If you watch closely you realise that rather than being a flock of individuals, you can actually make out that it is in fact a flock of pairs (with a very few singletons thrown in).

James