The dining table catches the sun in the flat. Working there is infinitely preferable to the much darker study however this looked slightly different.
I was working away at the laptop and making phone calls when something flew passed the window. Gulls and Jackdaws are passing all the time. I only caught it out of the corner of my eye but I could tell it was worth getting up for and walking over to the window. I was surprised to see a jackdaw with a frosty twist to its plumage.
Part of me wonders if plumage changes due to deficiency during the winter months, on purpose of course too.
It’s not that uncommon in Corvids to have white feathers. It’s a lack of the colour pigment melamine in the feather structure. It does however make them weaker that ‘normal’ feathers. Often these ‘white’ feathers wear out quickly.
I didn’t know that, thank you for sharing.
I recall an almost white black bird in Mynachlog-ddu. It used to hang around near the village sign.