Autumn Oak Perches

I took these three distant images this afternoon. The picture on the left is a crow in our southerly oak tree. It is nearly bare. The heartwood is rotten so that's probably why it loses its leaves early.

In the middle another crow is perching in one of the oaks that line the brook to the south of our property. Their leaves have turned beautifully golden but are still hanging on.

The shot on the right is a female kestrel sitting in an oak tree that grew from a sapling that appeared in the hedge and which MrQ decided to leave, even though its presence wouldn't be conducive to crops in our nearby glasshouses. It's huge now and its leaves are still green. It holds onto them longer than all the other nearby oaks.