{"id":27080,"date":"2020-12-12T10:42:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T09:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=27080"},"modified":"2020-12-12T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T09:47:12","slug":"good-times-for-jackdaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=27080","title":{"rendered":"Good times for Jackdaws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With mild weather continuing and no significant frost so far in December and none forecast in the long-term forecast, it&#8217;s good times for Jackdaws (kaie) that feed mainly in fields. Despite the very short days with just a few hours of daylight and no sun, they still have time for &#8220;play&#8221; before flying into the roost at Vikhammer just a km from here. In cold weather they will fly low down where there&#8217;s least wind resistence straight into the roost with minimal aerial acrobatics. Here&#8217;s 3 films showing flocks of 540 and 700 birds (yes, I counted for recording purposes) flying over the house and another smaller flock that momentarily landed in the neighbour&#8217;s large copper beech tree.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-27080-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jackdaw1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jackdaw1.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jackdaw1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-27080-2\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jackdaw2.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jackdaw2.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jackdaw2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-27080-3\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jackdaw3.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jackdaw3.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jackdaw3.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With mild weather continuing and no significant frost so far in December and none forecast in the long-term forecast, it&#8217;s good times for Jackdaws (kaie) that feed mainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4084,824],"class_list":["post-27080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-copper-beech","tag-jackdaw"],"views":3709,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27085,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080\/revisions\/27085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}