stick from another Rook’s nest. The punishment for this 
is severe, and the offender is sometimes pecked to death. 
Yet in other ways they are decidedly stupid. If a Rook 
drops a stick, for example, on its way to its nest, it never 
seems to think of picking it up again, but goes off to look 
for another. And if a sharp frost in autumn is followed by 
a day or two of bright and warmer weather, these birds 
always seem to think that spring has come, and set busily 
to work to patch up their nests. 
These nests, unlike those of most birds, are used year 
after year. They are rather clumsily built, and are always 
placed in the upper branches of tall trees, where it is very 
difficult to reach them. And each nest contains either four 
or five pale green eggs, blotched 
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