Here’s an article from this week’s Bude and Stratton Post (my local paper).
Jackdaw freed
Firefighters have freed a jackdaw trapped in a slate roof. The bird became trapped by its legs on the apex of a building at Station Road, Okehampton, on Friday.
Two fire engines from Okehampton went to the scene and, using a 13.5 metre ladder, firefighters released the frightened bird.
Have you any pics of bude canal steve shaw .I absolutely love fishing that canal.i was there the week they flooded and we couldnt get back to our digs.lovely place bude.The only draw back all the bloody holiday makers Going to retire to cornwall in about 10yr either bude or trevelgue.bet its a great place to live your a lucky fella,
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Clovelly must be one of the strangest and fantastic places ive ever seen,bet its one of the only villages in the uk you have to pay to enter. well worth it though.
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glad the bird made it.
Jackdaw singing on the old slate rooooof…
Free my trapped-up legs and let my fly
All this afternoon…
I was only waiting for the Firemen to arrive…
If this restored it, what destored it?
I will be fishing it soon enough thats wetted my appetite cheers.
fantastic place
I have some pics of the sea-lock somewhere on my hard-drive, but can I find the darn things? 
Here’s a jackdaw for those who don’t know them:
They seem like very likeable chaps from the descriptions I’ve been reading.
It’s easy to spot a Jackdaw because they have two-tone heads. All the other corvids are one shade of black.
We’ve got a big colony of jackdaws at the gravel-pits about a mile from where I live.
Er…what of Hoodies though? I always thought of them as two-tone jobs…
A bit off-list I suppose but never mind…you don’t happen to know my friend Dick Turner, do you? He seems to run the Bude Canal fishery. His missus has just brought me back from the session in her taxi! The Bude canal is a real treasure. It was constructed about 200 years ago for the sole purpose of bringing shell-rich sand inland to fertilize the heavy clay soils of north Cornwall and north Devon. It has not been used for that purpose for well over 100 years now, but some beautiful stretches still remain and, with a bit of luck, even more of it will be restored. Not to speak of the lower Tamar Lake, built to feed the canal, and now a wonderful haven for wildlife and a bit of peace and quiet! The canal has some unique features such as inclined planes (to allow the tub-boats to negotiate the hilly hinterland) and, as far as I know, the only working sea-lock in the UK.
That’s cute. I remember when I first heard the Lenon/McCartney version.
I’ve been walking in Scotland in my younger days, and saw plenty big crows, but I must never have seen a hoodie, by your description, Steve.
I looked up my RSPB Guide, and there on the page of Corvids, it has the Magpie and the Jay. So Corvids do come in other colours than black. Wrong again. I’m getting used to it. RSPB doesn’t have an illustration of a hoodie.
Maybe Bluewater won’t let them into their mall… …just another hoodie with an Asbo…
I did a lot of walking in the northern Highlands in the 70s and we saw a lot of flocks of hoodies (hooded crows - which are just a race of the carrion crow). My RSPB guide is a 1984 paperback, and it has a picture of hoodies on p.167. Illustrated guide here. To go off at a slight tangent (sorry, Americans!), for Christmas my daughter bought me “Birds Britannica” by Mark Cocker. It’s a big book, not a field guide, but it’s the most wonderful, affectionate study of British birds.
Ar, thanks for the link, Steve. I found it myself but you beat me to posting it.
I never saw a crow with that two-tone effect, but then they were mostly silhouettes on mountainsides or against a bright sky. I’ll keep an eye out. They say that a mob of Jackdaws will mob a crow. I’ve never seen that, but last week from our office window we saw a Crow attack a red Kite. The Kite was doing its morning patrol, at about 11am and a Crow rose up from the ground and went for it. The fight lasted for about five mintes, with the Crow doing its best to chase the Kite and the Kite essentially behaving like the expression “Don’t bother me, kid.”
And here’s a slated roof for those don’t know them:
And a fire engine for thos…etc:
(Sorry Steve, im just in a cheeky mood)! 
We have slated roofs (rooves?) here in the States.
We have fire engines, too, although they don’t look like
flammable piñatas. Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence,
if you follow me, but, hey, cultural differences and all that.
We 'Merkins don’t have jackdaws, though. Well, if we do, they’re ILLEGAL ALIENS. 
BTW, flanum, could you ever find it in your heart
to post little photos? 
A nice story.
I had a pet jackdaw when I was a kid.
My grandfather fixed the bird’s broken wing and it stuck around. I would say they are more intelligent than dogs.
When I think about it, my grandfather must have rescued hundreds of birds.
I remember injured blackbirds, magpies, starlings and even a couple of owls hopping around his aviary over the years.
Mukade
Was that in the States, Mukade? I’ve never seen a jackdaw, myself.