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Thanks a lot fellows for all of your very kind comments on my shots , keep and stay safe

Another not really funny one, but just to show how I got some boring standing-in-the-snow shots just before that action shot where he jumped ... out of the frame :(

Video showing Rook catching five pieces of suet in quick succession.

Rook flying up behind Rook on fence.

Rook flying up behind Rook on fence.

If only I'd known he was about to jump and had swung the camera a bit to the right. If only I'd been a few steps further away. If only I'd had a shorter lens on. If only ... then this could have been a really great shot. But at least it's a good SF shot. Now I have to get jumping too. I have a...

3 Rooks and 2 Jackdaws on a fence. One in the middle is about to catch a peanut. https://vimeo.com/474246133

Rooks ducking out of the way of two other birds as they fly past.

I didn't notice at the time. Only saw it when I was zooming in close on my screen to see if this shot was sharp enough for sharing. Then I saw how worn his/her bill is, perhaps even broken and healed. A sign of advanced age? Or (given how little grey I see around the base of the bill) is this a...

The Rook had already seen what was going on, and the "tailings" from the Nutcracker's drilling work pretty much showed the Rook where to probe for edible treasure.

Scruffy as ever

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During Lockdow we were only allowed an hour's exercise a day, so I used to go out round the local streets, taking a different circuit each day. This particular day the weather wasn't great but I took my camera anyway, just in case. On the other side of the road, was two lots of houses and a...

Thanks a lot fellows for all of your very kind comments on my shots

The Rooks will steal cones from the Nutcrackers by chasing them off so fast the Nutcrackers drop them. Or they'll steal pine nuts the Nutcrackers have cached if they can find them. But sometimes they don't exactly steal, just pick over the remains of cones the Nutcrackers have left half-finished...

Today's theme is various corvids looking particularly dignified. It's something corvids are quite good at, I find.

I keep trying for shots that show Rooks at their shiniest and most colorful. Sometimes the sun, the bird, and I get in the right alignment.