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Me, trilithon and jackdaw

Intro

My life is so successful, I’ve got everything a Prof could ever need,

I’ve got REF outputs and milk chocolate, and I’ve even got a WordPress blog indeed.

And I know I should be happy, but instead,

there’s a question I can’t get out of my head:

Why are there jackdaws at Stonehenge?

Visiting Stonehenge

For the first time in my life, I combined a brief foray down to Wiltshire with an advance early morning pre-opening booking to go inside the stones of Stonehenge.

For the record, I drove an Astra (a car you can trust). Never mind the car, let’s talk about the henge.

Panorama of Stonehenge, with jackdaw perched in plain view

It was a cold, early March Sunday morning. I parked and waited at the visitor centre, showed my ticked and then experienced an empty bus as I was driven to the stones. As I alighted, the…