Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Just Love these birds! I've been out there, painting another roof lift this afternoon, and was watching a small bunch of rooks, hundred yards out on my home acre and wishing they'd transform themselves into Hoodies. So I guess I kind of had crows on the mind, eh? Well, roof done, I've come in here for a read and a cuppa. Then I've wandered back out there to examine my handy work. I'm just thinking to myself, " A man's got to take the time to admire his own work. ", like ye do. Perfectly at peace with myself. When at 11 o' clock, a corvid's coming in fast! I've turned to watch the black sillouette and it struck me just how fast this bugger was approaching. Eating the distance on deep, measured wing beats. I thought ~ actually muttered under my breath to myself ~ " Don't tell me This is a bloody Hoodie now?! ~ Shotgun job anyway ..... " And then she was at 7 o'clock and passing close. My god! I have never before actually seen that distinctive 'beard' so clearly! Big, thick, heavy beak was totally apparrent! Muvva f*kka was just zipping by on great, long wings. She never called and I didn't have time to register the tail. No need to. Completely black. Now diminishing fast into the distance, out towards a fir plantation or miles beyond. Wow! Probably one of the finest bird sightings I get around here. Having grown up with them as birds of legend, I now get to see 'The Morague' flying right over my own cottage! Never fails to thrill me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Squirrel_Basher 17,102 Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Yep ,we are graced with them in Wiltshire too .Stirs something inside to hear the "cronk cronk". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gardener 0 Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Yeah I got lucky today and saw one close-up - wish I had a good enough camera to have got a picture... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Big Fish Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Here's a photo to give you some comparision of size, buzzard versus raven! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Some shot, TBF! Yeppers, Drops; The Call of the Raven, as ye say, it just hits the mark, doesn't it? First time I ever encountered one was on the Isle of Wight. They called right over my head and I just went goose bumps from head to toe! Regards the size of these birds; I think that was best summed up for me last year. I was stood out on my ground when I looked up to see what my mind translated as two Collared Doves mobbing a Carrion Crow. Then it sunk in; We Have No Carrion Crows here! It was a pair of Hoodies, completely dwarfed by the huge Raven they were escprting through their air space! F*CK! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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