rooks.org.uk

hello, it was very nice to find this site, I’ve found the previous posts interesting and I hope someone here might be able to help me. I am hoping to obtain a field recording of a rookery, ideally a long recording (approx 20 minutes or more) of a rookery with lots of birds. So…questions. Does anyone have any recordings they would be willing to share? Does anyone know of any in the public domain anywhere or existing on record/tape/cd? The other solution to this is that I have the means to record outdoors myself, so alternatively does anyone know of any large rookeries in Southern Scotland/Northern England? Following on from that, is there any insights into rook behaviour that might help me. The smallish rookery nearby to me was looking/sounding empty when I went to visit it earlier this year but going past today (early March) there was a good few birds in the trees, so is there an ideal time of year and time of day that I would find the most birds present? Finally (phew..!) is there anything I should consider in trying to get fairly near to the nests to record, e.g. how near I can get without disturbing the birds.

Any ideas on the above would be very gratefully recieved, thank you.

sam