Crows and their nests.

[Pennine Ploughing]

Any one else noticed the Crows seem to be building nests lower this year ?
Old tales were its a sign of a bad summer

 

[Nearly]

If I can build or buy a ladder trap they'll have a bad summer.

 

[GWM]

Maybe building them just a bit higher than the tide mark.

 

[Exfarmer]

Any one else noticed the Crows seem to be building nests lower this year ?
Old tales were its a sign of a bad summer

Since crows always build their nests on top of last years, i suspect the old saying is a sign of optimism

 

[RmfJ]

Since crows always build their nests on top of last years, i suspect the old saying is a sign of optimism

They always have to start afresh here all traces of previous nests are blown out of trees by our winds.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

They always have to start afresh here all traces of previous nests are blown out of trees by our winds.

That's what mainly happens here, may be an odd one survives, but most have gone before next year,

 

[bluebell]

Does anyone remember, country people going round, "knocking out the crow/rooks nests"? my mother mentioned that happening up the country lane where she lived in the 1950s?

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Are we talking about rooks here?

 

[Treecreeper]

"A 'rook' nesting by its self will be a crow, lots of crows nesting together will be rooks,"

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Does anyone remember, country people going round, "knocking out the crow/rooks nests"? my mother mentioned that happening up the country lane where she lived in the 1950s?

Father used to blast them with 12 bore once he thought chick's had hatched

 

[Exfarmer]

In the 60’s and 70’s we always went round the rook nests every year just as the youngsters had fledged and about to fly. They would come out on the branches where they were easy prey, except they were probably 60ft up and the trees had just started in leaf.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

"A 'rook' nesting by its self will be a crow, lots of crows nesting together will be rooks,"

A crow is a Crow and Rook is a Rook
Rooks build Rookeries not Crows
Breeds withinin a species

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

A crow is a Crow and Rook is a Rook
Rooks build Rookeries not Crows
Breeds withinin a species

A rook is also a crow.

 

[topground]

A rook is also a crow.

A Corvid.
There are eight species of corvid in the British Isles: carrion crow, hooded crow, jackdaw, rook, raven, magpie, jay and chough.

 

[Jon 3085]

These guys like Hula hoops at Taunton services on the M5.Must be waiting for spring planting to start

 

[Wood field]

The crows were shagging yesterday, never seen as many , pairs stuck like dogs on the track to our house
Bloody sheep got in the way before 21/2 tonnes of Toyota could flatten a few

 

[Kidds]

In the 60’s and 70’s we always went round the rook nests every year just as the youngsters had fledged and about to fly. They would come out on the branches where they were easy prey, except they were probably 60ft up and the trees had just started in leaf.

Folk used to eat those "branchers" but there wasn't a lot of meat on them, hence the phrase "four and twenty black birds baked in a pie".
I've had rook pie many years ago, it was quite nice.

 

[2wheels]

32grms of 4s through the nest then 6s in the second barrel to get the flyaways.

 

[ford 7810]

Folk used to eat those "branchers" but there wasn't a lot of meat on them, hence the phrase "four and twenty black birds baked in a pie".
I've had rook pie many years ago, it was quite nice.

I’ve heard that be like eating a bloody rat the thought of it

 

[MrNoo]

Folk used to eat those "branchers" but there wasn't a lot of meat on them, hence the phrase "four and twenty black birds baked in a pie".
I've had rook pie many years ago, it was quite nice.

Yes, I have too, wasn't overly impressed I seem to remember. Plenty of rooks here, I don't mind them, unfortunately Ravens too which I hate with a passion despite them being rather magnificent birds. Not noticed nests lower down here.