| Re: Bird of the day!
I don't know whether my birds of the day were rooks or crows. My bird identification is lacking somewhat, and the distance didn't help me much. Near the River Trent, Gunthorpe, there were several hundred of these birds riding a thermal, gradually getting higher and further downstream. Then, suddenly they all individually spiralled quickly down to the ground ( or at least out of my sight). They must have had near closed wings, so quickly did they come down. I have no idea why they did it .
And upstream on the far bank of the river, there were a couple of white, heron like birds in the shallows: egrets? |