Jackdaws

In Spring to home owners they can be a pest When on chimneys they decide to build their stick nest They do cause a lot of blocked chimneys in May These medium sized dark corvids with napes of silver gray Jackdaws in their range are birds quite well known One can say of them they have ways of their own Than most other corvids much smaller in size Once seen and once heard not hard to recognize Good friends of the farmers some are known to say They keep harmful insects, slugs and grubs at bay From where people live they are never far away In town parks and the countryside they are seen every day Compared to most corvids in size they are small And than their bigger cousins have a weaker call.