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The cold weather has brought omnivorous but preferably insect-eating birds to the passerines’ feeding places to eat seeds and pick at the lard balls

 

Jackdaws are a little smaller than crows, and, typically for crow family birds, clever birds. They look as if they had a silver grey scarf, with black, iridescent back plumage and dark grey chest. Because the jackdaw’s forehead is black the iris of the eye seems white – in reality the colour would be steel grey. The weight is a little above two hundred grams.

 

In winter jackdaw flocks are quite noisy in cityscapes; from northern regions  more of them have migrated to Estonia. The abundance in winter is estimated at a hundred to two hundred thousand individuals. As a rule we don’t see them in forests. 

Jackdaw