The
thrush was soon busy searching for grubs and bugs in the lawns while I sipped my coffee and clicked away. Hotham Park has a large colony
of the big black birds - which in some of my pictures appear to be
rooks but in other crows. They were in the background as the
songthrush worked the lawn for food.
I
was trying to work out whether it was rooks or crows, still...the fact that they were in a large group is more prevalent in rooks, but
not all crows isolate themselves. Again, while rooks often have
groups of nests in trees, crows may also do this. Meanwhile, the
thrush had found a worm for lunch.
I
took some close up shots of the big black birds - that were not
jackdaws or ravens...
Despite
some really good close up pictures, I didn't get a 'final decision'
made on whether they were rooks or carrion crows though. Apparently,
young rooks don't have the white patch on their beaks - and these guys
looked like they might get white patches - but... I will side with crows....for now.
That's a pretty cool-looking bird, whatever he is.
ReplyDeletethere were loads of them.... about 2 dozen!
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