Our very nice, conservation-minded Landlord has it in his head that there are too many jackdaws around this year and they're killing the songbirds. They're not. Anyway, he wants to make a pre-emptive strike and shoot the jackdaws.
my work station
We have jackdaws living in our chimney stack or, as Evie calls it, our jimley. They are The Jimley Jackdaws (and if I ever change my name by deed poll again I'm going to be Jo Jimley-Jackdaw because we all know that would be awesome). I love our jackdaws and do not want their death or the deaths of their subsequently starving chicks literally hanging over our heads.
So I thought I should put some protective stuff together for the JJs and to that end, I made a quick totem for them. A very small one. And now it's sitting on the mantlepiece in the kitchen, where the JJs can be heard, waiting for me to add some penwork.
I quite like it.
(Young jackdaws have pale blue eyes.)