The other day, some fantastic low level formations of canada geese flew over the car park, honking away against a deep twilight, flying at speed and looking like an air force. I'm not seeing the mass pied wagtail roost yet, but I'm now on the wrong side of the campus.
I will cycle over on my way home, to the trees that they roost in.
What I'm also seeing in large numbers are big flocks of crows - probably more likely to be rooks than carrions? - heading overhead usually about half an hour before sunset. I don't know they have been spending the day doing, working freshly ploughed fields perhaps, but they are going over in flocks over a hundred strong, cawing away as they fly towards the sun.
The two shots I've got aren't the biggest sky murders I've ever seen, nor the lowest. They aren't easy to photograph with my mobile.
But it's what's happening up there!
Si
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Geese flying over in formation at any time of the year are exciting. I always think that aircraft just copy the birds in the way they fly in formation. I expect I am right.
ReplyDeleteI love the rooks against the pink fluffy clouds and blue sky.
ReplyDeleteRooks fly over our house each evening. There must be several hundred. I love the noise they make as they head for home.
Thank you! I suspect they are rooks making their way home
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