Jackdaw revisited

The jackdaw must be keeping a close watch on the garden feeders. As soon as the fat balls are replenished, in it flies. I have chosen a composite today because each photo displays a particular aspect of the bird. The three were taken within the space of a couple of minutes.

In the top left picture its scale becomes obvious in comparison to the little greenfinch, sitting below at a respectful distance on an apple tree branch. The latter has no doubts about the pecking order! The jackdaw is the smallest variety of crow and you can see it's not so very big in this picture, but a lot bigger than the finch. It looks a much more substantial bird in the other two shots.

On the right, the jackdaw's eternally vigilant piercing eyes with their distinctive pale-grey irises, stare out from its black plumage. Finally in the lower picture, its beautiful silvery dorsal feathers and its grey nape are displayed, and one of its jet black claws can be seen clearly gripping the fat ball.

This picture complements the one I took on the 16th which showed the jackdaw struggling to keep a grip and feed at the same time. It seems to have solved that problem remarkably quickly! A testament perhaps to its intelligence.

Canon Legria; ISO 3; 46mm; f5.2; 1/100