Mundy Rooks

One of the hybrid black poplars on the Mundy Playing fields recently fell down and was sawn up and taken away

Maybe this has made the rooks wary because usually in previous years all three poplars contained rooks' nests - up to fourteen.  But this year one of the poplars has only five nests . . .

. . . while its partner tree has two mistletoe clumps, and loads of of bright red catkins but no nests.

Looking again I saw that the neighbouring ash tree had three nests - maybe for the less aspirational rook . . .

. . . and at some distance one of the large oak trees was starting to get built up.  Two pairs of desirable rook residences in separate neighbourhoods.

 What makes them choose one tree or section of a tree rather than another, I wonder.

It's like Poplar Avenue, Ash Mews and Oakleaze Road.