Just to record sitting here in my hotel in Vilnius. The roosting flocks of crows zipping past my 11th floot window. Jackdaws (eastern>), Hooded Crows and Rooks - many hundreds in total - seem to roost on the high buildings of the city, an impressive sight during the evening - reminiscent of the str=arling flocks that used to whizz around london.
Vilnius is rather rural in its bird life. When Chrystal and I were here in March, Just outside the Reval hotel here, on the snowy grass between the river and the hotel, we saw about 20 Grey Partridge - almost in the centre of a capital city!?!
I have also seen Tree Sparrow hoping around in the main street of Kaunas.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
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the flocks heading SW over KTU in Kaunas make the Vilnius flocks look small. Last night several thousand mixed corvids darkened the sky. Impossible to figure out the mix but there are constantly Jackdaws and Rooks in view from the office window and usually Hooded Crow too. I would (gu)estimate that at least 50% of birds are Jackdaw
and of course there are Magpies around although no sign of roost-time flocking (per Watford groups of >100) that i have seen
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