rook

By the look of this Rooks upper mandible, it looks like the same bird I photographed last year in the same place, at the bus stop in Rye.

Waiting for the bus back from Rye last week, and a couple of Rooks were foraging in the Town.

I was about to take a shot of this Rook, which was feeding unusually close to the path, when it suddenly took off. If I had been a bit more alert I could have used a faster shutter speed and avoided the blurred wings. That's the trouble with us rookie photographers ... Ron

This Rook visited my bird table this morning, looks like its feeding youngsters. The nearest Rookery is about six miles away. It's unusual to see a Rook in my suberban garden

A Rook rooting through huge molehills on Buckenham Marshes. I always think these birds have a very ancient, gnarled appearance, hence the title. Ron

Rook

I love the bleakness of Buckenham Marshes in winter and on this occasion it felt even more desolate than usual with the calls of the corvids echoing out through the thick, icy mist. I think they are Rooks but I am sure somebody will tell me if they are not! Ron

I did a bit of re-editing of some old posts yesterday, hope you like them. Rooks really are beautiful in an ugly way when you see that face close up.

Not a bad day's birding on a day trip, walking from Worth Maltravers, but this is the only decent picture - at our final stop for tea!

A bit unusual I guess, with the feeding tray included in the image. But this Rook sometimes comes down onto the patio to feed. Cracking bird, and very chuffed to have them regularly in the garden. They do normally sit in the big Oak Tree vying for the best perches with the Carrion Crows

Superb bird of the winter and early spring in the countryside, hearing these calling out on a cold frosty morn, is a great sound to cherish.

I suppose it depends on the point of view! :-O We have hardly any Rook in my country and their strange face fascinate me, as well as the purple shine of their plumage. So I was dying to get a pic of one for my gallery during my holiday in UK... aim achieved in Wales!!! :bounce: Hope the odd...

One of my favourites, often seen at Slimbridge.

I've not been able to get out for the last few days, so here's one from spring, A bird I've not seen much on BF!!

This is one of two rooks I saw picnicking on worms on a lawn between a shopping center and a residential area on the outskirts of town today. If I recall correctly, there are more rooks now than there used to be, although there were some as long as I've lived here. It was something people...

One of my favourites.

Loved the colours coming off the plumage on this old fella.

You never see just one Rook. Rooks don't visit gardens. Wrong on both counts!