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Jackdaws have shown up in the winter bird feeder webcam view all eight winters that the webcam has been working. The frost degrees have brought the omnivores to the food table of the passerines to eat seeds, but particularly to pick on the fat balls – their visits can be seen around midday. After the demolition work of the strong-beaked jackdaws the fat balls that tend to go quite hard in cold are easier for the passerines to peck at until evening.

 

Jackdaws are the smallest of the crow family birds, but typically for corvids clever birds. Length over 30 centimetres and weight around a couple of hundred grams. Jackdaws seem to have a silvery grey headscarf on their heads, back plumage metallic black, chest dark gray. Because the forehead of the jackdaw is black the iris seems white – actually it is steel gray. The strong beak and legs are black-coloured.

 

In winter jackdaw flocks are quite vociferous in the urban landscape, and from northern areas more of them have moved to us. The numbers in winter are estimated at more than a hundred thousand individuals. As a rule we will not meet these companions to humans in forests.

 

See observations of jackdaws: LINK