Clint Eastwood
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I love jackdaws. They are the Staffy Bull terrier of the bird world. when they come into land the look like a harrier jump jet.Robin
Green finch
Coal T*t (I think that's the t*t type)
Collared Dove
Wood Pigeon
Blackbird
Starling
House Sparrow
Jay
Jackdaw (noisy b**tards)
Greater Spotted Woodpecker
Pheasants (and lots of them)
I started feeding my local flock of about 6 pairs over 25 years ago. I now have over 200 come in for the daily feed. They mate for life & are extremely bright.
A few years back the one that lives in my chimney had it's fledgling crash land on some ground at the back of my house. She was screaming at me for about 2 minutes until I eventually clicked & followed her. A cat was about to attack her stunned fledgling. I hissed at the cat & it ran off & about 20 Jackdaws saw it off by dive bombing it one after another. She will now take peanuts from my hand & many of the others are tame to me.
They bring me walnuts & other shelled nuts they find for me to crush for them & large sticks to break that are too big for building their nests.
When they flock the sight is magnificent, When they fly over my house if I'm in the garden there is a crescendo of "pecaw, pecaw pecaw" & "Jack,jack,jack" as they hover over me. Which suggests they have an intelligent defined language, they also mimic the crow when there is danger.
The Victorians kept them as pets & they would talk like parrots. Burglars also trained them to fly into open windows & search for jewellery & coins.