In my new home, there are Jackdaws nesting in the chimney. It's a smoke free zone, and so the living room fireplace is now home to gas fire. Now smoke to bother the Jackdaws.
The pair have chicks, which must be getting quite big now. I have heard them during the night, and in the morning being very noisy.
It seems they may be tucked way down there inside the chimney. They sound like puppies. Honestly, when i first heard them, I thought my next door neighbour had a tiny dog or puppy. It's a yapping sound.
The parents are busy all the time, in and out of the chimney pot on the roof. The amusing thing is, every house in this street has a pair of Jackdaws nesting in their chimney. They are also my favourite bird.
They are so intelligent, and quite cheeky, and brave. How do you tell a Jackdaw from the other Crow family members?
Jackdaws have silvery grey feathers on their heads, so their head looks grey.
Jackdaws have also been under threat in the UK because of farming practices. And they are supposedly dwindling in numbers.
Yet here away from the farms, they are thriving. There are several, perhaps 2 or 3 pairs, of Jackdaws nesting in the stones in the Stonehenge circle in Wiltshire, England. They are the birds in charge there and it is the same here.