The Joy of Nature - big bird watch and surprising behaviour of a cow!

I loved that article, animals are far more intelligent than humans give them credit for! 

And thanks for the heads up on the big garden bird watch, I'm excited to do it with the new feeders up this year!

I used to feed mealworms as well as seeds, suet balls and peanuts but that got too expensive. Pity, as I love corvids and used to enjoy the antics of crows and rooks. In my last garden I had a 'crow bar' as they like to sit together - it was a piece of timber across a frame. When I occasionally buy a small bag of mealworms, the jackdaws and rooks are very quick to arrive!

I love the idea of a crow bar, as you'll get to see behaviour you wouldn't otherwise! I think corvids are cool, though they can be rather destructive on feedings, we did have feeders several years ago and they kept knocking them off the trees to make them easier to get to. 

I got 'The Lost Spells' by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris for my daughter, and one of her favourite poems is Jackdaw. 

I also got to animate some raven characters in a game last year, it was great fun to really study their motion and flight. 

I might do another one later in the year - but too expensive to feed the huge flock that murmurates across the sky most evenings [the video is not mine but very like].

I might do another one later in the year - but too expensive to feed the huge flock that murmurates across the sky most evenings [the video is not mine but very like].