Well there goes another day trying to shoo off those pesky jackdaws from our garden. As I said before I don't mind the occasional one or two (there is one which has only one leg and I will normally let him eat some of the bird food and bread) but it is the sheer number of them that they scoop down and it looks like a scene from Hitchcock's film 'The birds' that it is the problem...Now they have also become cheekier and bolder as they don't get discouraged or scared that easily. You will shoo them off and they won't leave first time around, they will just wait for the second try and even then they will stick around on the rooftops, trees and top of garden walls and they will just look at you, quite innocent like they are trying to say 'in human terms': 'What did we do wrong?' or 'We only want to eat...'. Let's stop right now trying to anthropomorphise them and start feeling sorry for them, they are stubborn and annoying and they are scaring the little ones...

On a more lighter note, when I went to the local shop for some light shopping earlier this afternoon on my way back I looked around on the nearby rooftops and I was suprised not to see not even one jackdaw flying by or sitting on any roof. Well, my suprise was cured when I got home and looked in my garden....there were all there gulping down any seed or piece of bread left from earlier....They were having a party while I was away. I wish there was an easy away to keep them away from my garden without having to stop putting food for the smaller ones. Even the occasional magpie that comes in our garden chases them off...I will say it one more time...these pesky jackdaws.

On the positive note I saw quite a few blue teats yesterday hanging from the feeder and on the little dead tree!


nest box