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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jack harnser" data-source="post: 3316327" data-attributes="member: 87329">Massive gathering of Rooks and Jackdaws over the old Rookery yesterday in the very high winds from the tail end of  Storm "Barney".I was cycling along the side road in the morning and watched a Black headed Gull try to cross the road in front of me.  Each time it came up from behind the hedge it managed to cross the road but was unable to continue and blown back behind the shelter of the hedge.  It must have tried this half a dozen times nearly at ground level.However the Rooks and Jackdaws were having a really good time about a hundred feet up in stronger winds.  Swooping  and  tumbling and masters of the sky.  I would have thought that a gull was much more aerodynamic than a crow and much more adapted for harsh weather at sea.  Crows look to have much more drag but this does not seem to be the case in practice.  Perhaps crows are just stronger.So no shortage of numbers of Rooks and Jackdaws still here, and the roost is still full.  The birds are dibbling in the grass field outside my house as I write and we live about two hundred yards from the old Rookery. But they have shown no other interest in it apart from flying over it occasionally.  I have never seen one land in it since they left.The mystery continues!</blockquote>