Diary of a weekend gardener

No longer Counting Crows

The neighbours had their chimneys rebuilt at the weekend, and I asked the builders if they'd fill in one of our chimney pots which has been nested in by crows for the past few years. I wouldn't have minded rooks, but these hooded crows had taken to screaming from the rooftop and descending en-masse to strip the bird table, Alfred Hitchcock style.

As of this morning there are none to be seen - not even skulking in the elm on the roadside. Oddly, I'm almost sorry. They had come to make up a part of our high level landscape, even if a rather unnerving one.

posted by Sue Beesley @ 5:45 pm