Location church yard, Segovia, Valladolid, Spain
This was the one time in which I wished I had binoculars. The church had a very nice courtyard with trees and paths. The jackdaws were numerous, so I finally got enough looks to conclude what they were.
Incidentally, I want to point out one of the valuable features of this field guide: they often have separate illustrations showing how birds will typically appear in the wild. There is nice little illustration of jackdaws on a chimney. These illustrations don't show field marks in the traditional sense, but they are valuable in aiding in identification. Seeing the jackdaws hanging around the church building, behaving like the ones in the illustration, helped cement the identification.
Another bird would have a similar type of picture that would prove invaluable to the identification. That entry is coming soon.
Wikipedia: Western Jackdaw
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