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Just seen a Heron flying .
Whenever I see a Heron it is always being harassed by Crows. I think I've only ever seen one on its own enjoying peaceful solo flight. Don't know why Crows have got it in for Herons.
 

deptfordmarmoset

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Whenever I see a Heron it is always being harassed by Crows. I think I've only ever seen one on its own enjoying peaceful solo flight. Don't know why Crows have got it in for Herons.
I've seen crows chase off hawks and I remember the noise when flocks of parakeets first started arriving in Greenwich Park - they're both raucous birds at the best of times. (Mind, they might have been jackdaws - I can't tell them apart.) I think it might simply be that crows don't like newcomers.
 
I've seen crows chase off hawks and I remember the noise when flocks of parakeets first started arriving in Greenwich Park - they're both raucous birds at the best of times. (Mind, they might have been jackdaws - I can't tell them apart.) I think it might simply be that crows don't like newcomers.
Hooligans of the avian world. They are the background sound of late autumn here, like an over enthusiastic radio sound effects engineer has been busy.
 
Hooligans of the avian world. They are the background sound of late autumn here, like an over enthusiastic radio sound effects engineer has been busy.
The collective noun for a group or flock of crows is "a murder of crows" they have many stories associated with them and even this old nursery rhyme
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told
Of course they have long been associated with death, perhaps because they were to be seen picking over corpses on battlefields .
I wouldn't say that they were hooligans ....they are far more intelligent for that appellation .
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
The collective noun for a group or flock of crows is "a murder of crows" they have many stories associated with them and even this old nursery rhyme
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told
Of course they have long been associated with death, perhaps because they were to be seen picking over corpses on battlefields .
I wouldn't say that they were hooligans ....they are far more intelligent for that appellation .
I only know of the rhyme being applied to magpies.
 
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