Jackdaws

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I’m at Portland in Dorset with my friend Mark when he offers to buy us ice creams. I’m hardly likely to refuse, …

Birds have several superpowers. One is that they can blink and still see, even when in the middle of blinking. Just look …

There’s a pair of Jackdaws working diligently through the cardboard in the recycling boxes. You’re meant to leave your recycling out before …

There’s a Jackdaw on the picnic lawn at Decoy Country Park. They’re endlessly entertaining, intelligent and wary. I’m waiting for it take …

I enjoyed my brief early morning trip to the empty park to see the nesting Rooks. I’m surprised to see the Rookery …

A lockdown lifetime ago we went to Dartmoor for a walk. I say ‘a walk’, but it was more an amble from …

There’s a Jackdaw flying fast towards me at Crime Lake: What a bird! It’s hard for me to be motivated to take …

I hear that there’s a Great Northern Diver, a type of bird frequently called a Loon everywhere apart from here, on a …

There’s time for a walk around Dove Stone reservoir in Saddleworth. I love their mosaic signs: very stylish: This must be a …

Matera in the south of Italy is a stone city full of nooks and crannies. It’s perfect habitat for Jackdaws, or Taccole …

If Jackdaws could talk, what would they say to us?

There’s a Jackdaw on the cliffs at Beachy Head in East Sussex. It has its beak open and is panting in this …

As well as all the Lesser Kestrels, there are Jackdaws everywhere in Matera in southern Italy. They’re on the rooftops, on window …

Forty years ago I was on holiday with my family. I still remember the thrill of my mum calling me to say …