An odd day today. I had some really good sightings, but precious few photos to show for it. Among the birds there were some teal and shelducks (all in the distance), a briefest glimpse of a kingfisher and (best of all) a close up view of buzzard being chased by some crows. They flew more or less directly over my car as I drove past! All of which means that the photos are of rather more prosaic sightings… such as this rook.
And my local piebald jackdaw, shortly after a downpour.
As final shot for today I've picked out this one of a flock of running sheep. 
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
gdare
27 Jan 2012First one is just funny 😀
claudeb
27 Jan 2012"What are you looking at?"
Smart birds!
derWandersmann
27 Jan 2012Nice sheep!
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27 Jan 2012Darko, they have such good faces. 😀
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27 Jan 2012Felix, they really are pretty smart, but I think rooks are about the strangest looking of the corvids.
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27 Jan 2012dW, I like the way hillside sheep break up the landscape. The flock was like a moving tide across the hill. I really should have filmed it.
serola
30 Jan 2012Very good pictures of corvids :up: Interesting family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae
SittingFox
30 Jan 2012Rooks are indeed strange. They look too angular to be real!
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30 Jan 2012Adele, at certain angles rooks are most strange indeed; but they make great subjects if the light's right.
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30 Jan 2012Sami, thanks! They are quite amazing birds, and always the first to attack/mob any raptor that comes into their territory.