Jackdaw 'mumuration' at Hill Road, Eastbourne

Every Autumn the Jackdaws that live on Foxholes Brow, the woods above Hill Road Eastbourne, engage in communal roosting behaviour. This is similar to a Starling mumuration.  On Saturday there must have been close to a thousand birds, one of the largest flocks I seen in nine years of living here.

The Jackdaws collected in the tree tops along the skyline, with more birds arriving all the time.

Every few minutes the majority of the birds would burst into flight, all calling excitedly as they did so.

This pattern repeated , diminishing in size as the light faded, until the birds were settled in their night-time roosts.