Jackdaws
Although I have seen jackdaws among great gatherings of rooks up on the old stubble. I have noticed that our own natives are back on the chimney pots. They are cawing round the roofs as I write and I am puzzled to know-exactly when they came back. Certainly I could see no jackdaws about a fortnight ago, and I concluded that they were still enjoying the pickings of the harvest fields and the potato patches. Food is not so plentiful as it was. Even the rooks are having to forage longer and one comes upon them feeding in the late afternoon when dusk is not so far away. The pigeons and other birds have exhausted most of the hawthorns and other berries and fruits, but I hardly th nk it was food that brought the jackdaws back from the field. It is true that they drop down swiftly for many a crust and crumb on the toad, but I believe they came back for warmth among the chimney pots, a little comfort not to be had on a damp bough of elm or ash. Whatever the reason, they are back, knocking down soot arid liming their favourite chimney pots.
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