I’m not one to crow but...

I HAVE just finished reading an interesting book. It’s called Corvus — A Life With Birds, by Esther Woolfson. It’s about the tame birds that have lived in her house for most of her life.

Woolfson kept many different species of bird but has a particular interest in the crow family. She’s lived with a magpie and a carrion crow — originally tiny fledglings that had fallen, or been pushed, out of a nest at an early age and would undoubtedly have died if she hadn’t rescued them.

However, the star of the book is a remarkable rook, called Chicken, which has been a member of her family for 16 years.